4chan/Flags

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Every country flag on 4chan. Note that this image includes England, Scotland, and Wales. It also includes the Unknown flag.

Five boards on 4chan currently have flags. Four of them have country flags, which display the country you're posting from (or the location of your VPN or proxy if you are using one.) Flags are used on 4chan as a method of pseudo-identification.

Country Flags

Anons reacting to a rare flag sighting

Country flags, or geoflags, display the country of the IP address that was used to submit a post. This flag is displayed to the right of a poster's name, or to the right of their ID, depending on the board. There are 255 supported countries. During certain sporting events, /sp/ gains specific flags for England, Scotland, and Wales. These flags can very rarely be found on /pol/ and /bant/ if a thread is moved from /sp/. Outside of these events, posting from one of those countries would normally display a Union Jack labelled United Kingdom.

Rare Flags

Ditto

Certain flags are more common to find than others. Countries with very low populations, or limited access to the Internet can be very rare to come across while browsing 4chan. These are often referred to as rare flags, and are pointed out by many when they are sighted.

Retired Flags

There are various flags that have been retired, and now will no longer appear on posts from their previous IP ranges. Not much is known about them; we can only infer from the archives that they have been retired due to an extremely long time since the last post from that country.

Country ISO 3166 Last Seen Total Posts Flag Notes
Netherlands Antilles AN 13 June 2017 12 An.gif to be written

Board Flags

All the current board flags on /pol/.
All the current board flags on /mlp/.
All the board flags that were on /lgbt/ during June 2022.

Board flags, previously troll flags, are colloquially referred to as meme flags by most posters. These flags are not determined by poster location, and instead can be chosen from a drop-down menu underneath the posting field.

Current board flags on /pol/

Display Name Drop-down Name ID Date Added Icon
Anarcho-Capitalist - AC 13 June 2017 Ac.png
Anarchist - AN 13 June 2017 An.png
Black Lives Matter Black Nationalist BL 13 June 2017 Bl.png
Confederate - CF 13 June 2017 Cf.png
Commie Communist CM 13 June 2017 Cm.png
Catalonia - CT 27 October 2017[1] Ct.png
Democrat - DM 13 June 2017 Dm.png
European - EU 13 June 2017 Eu.png
Fascist - FC 13 June 2017 Fc.png
Gadsden - GN 13 June 2017 Gn.png
LGBT Gay GY 13 June 2017 Gy.png
Jihadi - JH 13 June 2017 Jh.png
Kekistani - KN 13 June 2017 Kn.png
Muslim - MF 13 June 2017 Mf.png
National Bolshevik - NB 13 June 2017 Nb.png
NATO - NT 19 May 2022 Nt.png
Nazi - NZ 13 June 2017 Nz.png
Hippie - PC 13 June 2017 Pc.png
Pirate - PR 13 June 2017 Pr.png
Republican - RE 13 June 2017 Re.png
Task Force Z - MZ 19 May 2022 Mz.png
DEUS VULT Templar TM 13 June 2017 Tm.png
Tree Hugger - TR 13 June 2017 Tr.png
United Nations - UN 13 June 2017 Un.png
White Supremacist - WP 13 June 2017 Wp.png

/pol/ Harbor

-memeflags only (list them below) -moot fucks with /pol/, removes them -adds geoflags and IDs

anomalous flags

-vaporwave bhutan -easter egg flag -brotherhood of nod

/mlp/ pony flags

-board town hall feb 2021 -anon proposes flags -twimod agrees -board designs flags for a couple weeks -eventually 80 get added -too many to list

/lgbt/ pride month flags

-/lgbt/ got flags for pride month (June) 2022 -todo: crop and label them -list them