Year Adopted: 1905.

The flag features an emblem as follows: three white stars on a blue globe representing the grand divisions of the state: East, Middle and West. Tennessee is divided into three regions by the Tennessee River: West Tennessee, Middle Tennessee and East Tennessee. The stars are bound together in indissoluble unity by an unending white band. The flag field is red, and on the fly end is a vertical blue band separated from the red field by a white edging. The width of the white stripe is one-fifth that of the blue bar; and the combined width of stripe and bar is equal to one-eighth the width of the flag.

North Carolina ceded its western land, the Tennessee county, to the Federal Government in 1789. Congress designated the area as the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio. The "Southwest Territory" as it was also known, was incorporated in 1790 and existed until 1796, when Congress approved the admission of Tennessee as the sixteenth state of the Union in June of 1796. (ref; tn.gov, State History Timeline)