Top Ten Germany State Flags

In a group of mostly underwhelming and boring flags, this was an easy top pick for me. A lot of flags are super simple to the point they are extremely boring, but this one puts in a little more effort. It's the Lebanese flag, but instead of a pine tree, there is a bear walking on two legs. It looks nice, but the main thing that catches my interest is the red color.

I like it a lot. This flag isn't amazing or anything, but it's pretty good to great if I do say so myself.

Bavaria (or Bayern), perhaps Germany's most famous state. It's the largest state, second most populated, has the highest peak, and is home to many German stereotypes (not negative, by the way). It is a southern state of Germany.

This is also personally one of my favorite states of Germany because of the southern and mountainous terrain that I love. If I had to live in Germany, this state would be my second choice (we'll talk more about my first choice later in this list).

The flag certainly is no disappointment either. Well, it depends on which flag you mean. There are two official flags. The striped one is just a white and blue stripe, and the lozenge one has a lozenge pattern of the same colors.

Lozenge for the win. It just looks so unique and nice with that color combination and design.

Take the Hungarian flag and flip it upside down. That is the flag of North Rhine-Westphalia, a western state of Germany bordering Belgium and the Netherlands. The Hungarian flag was already one of my favorite flags of all time, so this isn't bad either.

Slightly worse, though, because the green color was muted, and I prefer having red at the top and green at the bottom instead of vice versa. Still a good flag.

Here is a northern state. Here you have the general plains biome and a coastal climate. It's also one of the six former East Germany states. The flag is pretty cool, I'd say. It resembles the Crimean flag but with a thin yellow stripe in the middle. Pretty nice and unique.

This is an example of a really simple flag that still looks cool because of a good color combination. It's just the Polish flag, except green instead of red. The green color, though, looks great. If it had been the same green as in North Rhine-Westphalia's flag, it would have been a lot worse, in my personal opinion.

Now this is definitely the same flag as the former country of "Serbia and Montenegro," despite being located in the opposite part of Europe. I mean, it's right underneath Denmark. A horizontal flag consisting of blue, white, and red. The only difference is this flag is less wide. But you know, I'm a fan of these types of flags, so this gets points from me as well.

This is a city-state along with Hamburg and Berlin, although way smaller and actually divided between two parts located in Lower Saxony: Bremen and Bremerhaven. I've heard they are like the sailing capitals of Germany. Their flag is certainly a unique one and different from the rest.

Basically, it's eight stripes, red and white, but to the left, some of the lines are divided into squares and switch rows (yeah, I'm not doing a good job at explaining, so better wait until I add pics). The point is, it looks very original and different from the rest.

Well, this will be easy. It's the German flag, but with Lower Saxony's emblem in the middle. Man, that was way easier than explaining Bremen's flag. Either way, I'm a huge fan of the German flag because of its originality and colors. I mean, that gold is nice, certainly. While these types of flags are highly unoriginal, at least the emblem of a white horse on a red shield looks very nice.

So this is a decent flag for me as well.

Here's the other Bavarian flag. This one is simpler and just consists of two horizontal stripes, white and light blue. It's basically San Marino's flag if you exclude the emblem. Simple, but I like the color combination, and it looks pretty cool. So yeah, both Bavarian flags make the top ten.

This is a unique one, certainly. Hamburg is a unique take on flags, definitely. It's a white castle on a red background. It's not lower on the list because that's all it has to offer, though. It's a pretty cool flag, I must say.

Personally, I think Germany probably had trouble designing their state flags considering their originality is not often great. In fact, it seems to have gotten so bad that two state flags looked entirely the same: Brandenburg and Hesse. Basically, the Indonesian flag. Literally. So Brandenburg added their emblem on it to distinguish it from Hesse's.

And it definitely looks better. I like Indonesia's flag, but for some reason, I don't like Hesse's. Either way, this is a decent flag overall.

This is a yellow and black striped flag horizontally. This is not a good color combination and looks weird. There is an emblem in the middle that makes it look alright, but it's still one of the bottom five flags in my opinion. I just don't like this flag all that much, that's all really.

There's not much to say about this one that wasn't already said about Lower Saxony. It uses the same concept of using the German flag and then adding an emblem. This flag looks a lot less appealing, though the emblem still looks decent, so it'll stay here.

This flag is just lame and unoriginal. Oh hey, let's put the German flag and then just a little emblem in the top left corner. That surely will make me like the flag. Wrong! This flag is just lazily made. It's the third one on the list to use this gimmick, but this looks just bland and boring.

Saarland and Lower Saxony looked a bit better due to their emblems being in the middle of the flag and not the top left, and they looked better as well.

This is Indonesia's flag. Also known as the flag of Hesse. It's the exact same thing. Even the specific red color is the same in both flags. Actually, wait, the red is slightly darker in Hesse's flag. Still, it just looks so unoriginal and lame. Could they not come up with something better?

Overall, one of my least favorites.

This flag is just boring, that's all I really have to say about this one. It's just one white stripe at the top and at the bottom is a red stripe. It looks awfully similar to Poland's flag but worse, honestly. The proportions and the specific red color make Poland's flag pretty nice looking, while this one just looks way too wide.

The red is the same as in Switzerland's, and it really doesn't fit, honestly. It just looks bad instead. So yeah, this flag is the weakest in my opinion.