A flag is a colored cloth with a specified meaning.

Flag, flags or The Flag may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

  • Captain Flag, 1940s comic book superhero
  • Foundation for Law And Government (FLAG), in TV series Knight Rider and sequels
  • Jack Flag, Marvel Comics superhero
  • The Flag (Ace Comics), comic book superhero

Film and television

  • Flag (TV series), 2006 Japanese anime
  • The Flag: A Story Inspired by the Tradition of Betsy Ross, a 1927 silent short film

Music

  • Flag (note), part of a note symbol in musical notation
  • FLAG, a band formed by former members of Black Flag
  • Flag (James Taylor album), 1979
  • Flag (Yello album), 1988
  • Flags (Brooke Fraser album), 2010
  • Flags (Moraz and Bruford album), 1985
  • The Flag (album), by Rick James, 1986
  • "Flags", a song by Coldplay from the 2019 album Everyday Life
  • "Flags", a song by the Cat Empire, a pre-order bonus track from the 2016 album Rising with the Sun

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

  • Flag (painting), by Jasper Johns, 1954/1955
  • The Flag (O'Keeffe painting), by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1918
  • The Flag (novel), by Robert Shaw, 1965
  • Karogs ('Flag'), Latvian literary magazine 1940–2010

Businesses and organizations

  • Fabbrica Ligure Automobili Genova (FLAG), an early Italian automobile manufacturer
  • Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG), an organization of human rights lawyers in the Philippines
  • Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, or Flag

Places

  • Flag, Arkansas, US
  • Flag, Missouri, US
  • Flag River, in Wisconsin, US
  • Flag (crater), on the Moon

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

  • Flag iris, the common name of several species
  • FLAG (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen
  • FLAG-tag, a peptide protein tag

Computing

  • Flag (programming), for signaling special code conditions
  • Flag, a command-line option in a command-line interface
  • FLAGS register, a CPU register on x86 systems
  • Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG), an undersea cable

Other uses in science and technology

  • FLAGS (Far North Liquids and Associated Gas System), a natural gas pipeline in the North Sea
  • Flag and pennant patterns, in the price charts of financially traded assets
  • Flag (geometry), part of a polygon, polyhedron or higher polytope
  • Flag (linear algebra), an increasing sequence of subspaces of a vector space

Sports and games

  • Flag, a baton used in the sporting event Beach Flags
  • Flag, a type of bet offered by UK bookmakers
  • Penalty flag, or flag, a yellow cloth used in some field sports to indicate an infraction
  • Flag, presented to the winner of the Australian Football League

Other uses

  • Flag (lighting), a device used in lighting for motion picture and still photography to block light
  • Flagstone or flag, used for paving, fencing, or roofing
  • Flag Boshielo (born 1920, disappeared 1970), South African anti-apartheid activist

See also

  • Checkered Flag (disambiguation)
  • Flagg (disambiguation)
  • Flagger (disambiguation)
  • Flagging (disambiguation)
  • Flagstone (disambiguation)
  • Red flag (disambiguation)
  • Yellow flag (disambiguation)
  • White flag (disambiguation)
  • Sweet flag (disambiguation)
  • Flag state, the jurisdiction under whose laws a vessel is registered
  • Flag tree, a variation of krummholz formation