[GH-ISSUE #740] Missing flag of Netherlands Antilles (Read issue before reporting as missing!) #383

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opened 2026-03-03 14:38:00 +03:00 by kerem · 2 comments

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Originally created by @junjie-max on GitHub (Aug 18, 2020).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/lipis/flag-icons/issues/740

The flag for AN is currently missing from this library.

Netherlands Antilles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles

Originally created by @junjie-max on GitHub (Aug 18, 2020). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/lipis/flag-icons/issues/740 The flag for AN is currently missing from this library. Netherlands Antilles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles

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@KingDarBoja commented on GitHub (Aug 26, 2020):

The Netherlands Antilles was a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The country consisted of several island territories located in the Caribbean Sea. The islands were also informally known as the Dutch Antilles. The country came into being in 1954 as the autonomous successor of the Dutch colony of Curaçao and Dependencies and was dissolved in 2010.

The country doesn't exist anymore, it was divided, according to official ISO-3166:AN into:

Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba (BQ, BES, 535), Curaçao (CW, CUW, 531) and Sint Maarten (Dutch part) (SX, SXM, 534).

@KingDarBoja commented on GitHub (Aug 26, 2020): > _The Netherlands Antilles was a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The country consisted of several island territories located in the Caribbean Sea. The islands were also informally known as the Dutch Antilles. The country came into being in 1954 as the autonomous successor of the Dutch colony of Curaçao and Dependencies and was dissolved in 2010._ The country doesn't exist anymore, it was divided, according to official [ISO-3166:AN](https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:AN) into: > Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba (BQ, BES, 535), Curaçao (CW, CUW, 531) and Sint Maarten (Dutch part) (SX, SXM, 534).

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@NotTsunami commented on GitHub (Dec 22, 2022):

I pinned this issue because people continuously ask for the flag despite it no longer being part of the ISO standard anymore. The primary function of this library is to represent flags of countries corresponding to current ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes. Additional flags for anything outside of the standard are added only as needed to keep the library size small, as this is intended to be used for web applications. Anything under the transitionally reserved section of the standard will not be added as they no longer in use, typically due to the renaming of a country, the resolution of the country, etc.

Specifically in the case of Netherlands Antilles, if you are using this library and prepending/appending the flag icons to a selection menu, the solution should be to remove Netherlands Antilles as an option - it does not exist anymore (as the Netherlands Antilles), it was divided into BQ (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba), CW (Curaçao) and SX (Dutch part of Sint Maarten), which all have flags.

@NotTsunami commented on GitHub (Dec 22, 2022): I pinned this issue because people continuously ask for the flag despite it no longer being part of the ISO standard anymore. The primary function of this library is to represent flags of countries corresponding to **current** ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes. Additional flags for anything outside of the standard are added only as needed to keep the library size small, as this is intended to be used for web applications. Anything under the transitionally reserved section of the standard will *not* be added as they no longer in use, typically due to the renaming of a country, the resolution of the country, etc. Specifically in the case of Netherlands Antilles, if you are using this library and prepending/appending the flag icons to a selection menu, the solution should be to remove Netherlands Antilles as an option - it does not exist anymore (as the Netherlands Antilles), it was divided into BQ ([Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaire,_Sint_Eustatius_and_Saba)), CW ([Curaçao](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao)) and SX (Dutch part of [Sint Maarten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten)), which all have flags.