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Best East Germany flag

Updated: 20 October 2026

You want one large East Germany flag for a wall or a light pole, and a listing with 15,077 reviews looks like the winner before you have read a comment. The best East Germany flag in this amazon.co.uk set is the 5 ft by 3 ft polyester flag whose reviews talk about an East Germany flag. That is The Flag Company listing, B001BVCOT2, at about £8.85, rated 4.6 from 31. The [DDR flag comparison](/hub/flags/ddr-flag) still holds every format. This page is one recommendation, and who should skip it. Products Compared compared these amazon.co.uk listings and the shop pages named below, updated 19 October 2026. A qualifying purchase can earn us a commission at no extra cost to you.

You want one large East Germany flag for a wall or a light pole, and a listing with 15,077 reviews looks like the winner before you have read a comment.

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What best means for this flag

Best here means a large printed polyester flag of the 1959–1990 design, with a fixing you can hang, at a price near the other 5 ft sheets, and with review text that mentions this flag. The Flag Shop’s 5 ft page has a price and no review block. Flying Colours shows a made-to-order price and no reviews yet. The trap is the shared star line. AZ FLAG’s 4.6 from 15,077 appears on the 90 cm flag and on the pack of two 150 cm flags, and those reviews include other countries. Thirty-one is a modest sample. It is also the sample here that discusses the DDR design. Cloth and the England planning question sit on the East Germany flag buying guide.

The large flag with DDR-specific comments

The Flag Company flag is 5 ft by 3 ft, about 91.4 cm by 152.4 cm, double-stitched polyester, listed at 150 g, with eyelets. No pole is included, and weatherproof is not answered. Five feet by three feet is the 3:5 proportion. At about £8.85 it sits next to Flagtex at about £8.99, so price is not why it leads. These are modern copies, not original 1959 flags. Flagtex, B0100PYNIE, is the same size class, with brass grommets, model 117900, rated 4.5 from 11 reviews, and listed at 99.8 g. The prose says indoors or outdoors and the use field says room. The AZ FLAG two-pack, B0F8QR5GNR, is about £22.95, about £11.48 a flag, dearer per flag than either single, and the title says 100D while the fabric field says 38D.

What to skip if you need a desk, a boat, or party cloth

Skip the 5 ft flag for a desk. The table flags here are 21 cm by 14 cm and 15 cm by 10 cm, each with a plastic base, described as indoor. Those formats are on the East Germany flag size page. Skip it if you need today’s courtesy flag for a boat. That flag is the plain tricolour. Skip it for a party string: the Flagtex bunting is a stated 3 m line with 10 flags, and the captured listing has no reviews. Skip it if the emblem must be absent. That difference, by year, is on the East Germany flag vs Germany flag page.

Leave it down in British weather

Skip the 5 ft print if the flag must stay out. The Flag Company listing does not state weatherproof, and AZ FLAG’s 100D line is occasional outdoor. UK makers describe about 115 gsm knitted polyester for printed outdoor flags and about 150 gsm woven polyester for sewn flags. Flagmakers’ remark of about 180 days is about that cloth, sunrise to sunset and not in severe weather, not a life test of B001BVCOT2.

Shop prices outside the ASIN set

Flag Superstore lists a 5 ft by 3 ft screen-printed polyester flag with two eyelets at £4.99, indoor or light outdoor, and no reviews on that page. The Flag Shop lists the same size at £7.99 including VAT, without a review block. Flying Colours shows a made-to-order 1959–1990 flag from £21.60 including VAT. AZ FLAG’s own UK shop lists a 3 ft by 5 ft 100D flag at £12.95 including VAT. None of those figures is a lab result. Inside this amazon set, start with B001BVCOT2 when you want one large polyester flag with eyelets and the clearest DDR comments.

Common questions

Which large flag has reviews about the DDR design?
The Flag Company 5 ft by 3 ft flag, B001BVCOT2, at about £8.85. It is rated 4.6 from 31 reviews, and the text mentions this flag. One reviewer says the emblem is not exact. Flagtex at about £8.99 has 4.5 from 11 reviews. The large AZ FLAG rows share a 15,077-review line with other listings.
Why not the listing with 15,077 reviews?
That number is not a count of comments on one DDR flag. It repeats on the 90 cm flag and the two-pack, and the reviews include other countries. Using it as a verdict would rank a shared widget above a listing whose comments are about this design.
Is the £4.99 shop flag better?
Flag Superstore’s 5 ft flag at £4.99 is cheaper, with two eyelets, a double-stitched hem, and a light-outdoor description. The page had no reviews when we checked it. The amazon listing at about £8.85 is the one whose 31 reviews mention the flag. Neither page is a weathering test.
Who should skip a 5 ft flag?
Skip it for a desk, a car mirror, a 3 m party string, or a 45 cm hand flag. A 5 ft by 3 ft sheet is about 150 cm on the long side. The 90 cm by 60 cm flag is the step down if you still want eyelets and a smaller rectangle.
Is the emblem guaranteed to match 1959 drawings?
No. These are modern printed copies. One reviewer of the Flag Company flag says the emblem is not exact, and we are not claiming a measured match to the historical drawing. If the centre of the photo is empty, it is the wrong flag.

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Sources

Public sources for this comparison, checked on 19 October 2026.

  1. GOV.UK flying flags guide (retrieved 19 October 2026)
  2. Class H, advertisements regulations (retrieved 19 October 2026)
  3. Public Order Act 1986, section 4A (retrieved 19 October 2026)
  4. Bundestag, flag of Germany (retrieved 19 October 2026)
  5. Deutschland.de, the German flag (retrieved 19 October 2026)
  6. Royal Museums Greenwich, GDR flag (retrieved 19 October 2026)
  7. Flagmakers, flag fabric (retrieved 19 October 2026)
  8. The Flag Shop, East Germany flag (retrieved 19 October 2026)
  9. Flying Colours, East Germany state flag (retrieved 19 October 2026)
  10. Flag Consultancy, flag flying procedures (retrieved 19 October 2026)