Although the federal period installed a number of flags of metropolitan France, Réunion does not have a separate official flag.

One flag was selected by the Vexillological Association of Réunion

Réunion

Réunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France...

 in 2003. It depicts the volcano of Fournaise

Piton de la Fournaise

Piton de la Fournaise : "Peak of the Furnace" is a shield volcano on the eastern side of Réunion island in the Indian Ocean. It is currently one of the most active volcanoes in the world, along with Kīlauea in the Hawaiian Islands , Stromboli, Etna and Mount Erebus in Antarctica...

, bedecked by gold sunbeams.

Since June 14, 2008, separatists and nationalists of Reunion also have their flag (green, yellow, red). Green symbolizes the marronage

Maroon (people)

Maroons were runaway slaves in the West Indies, Central America, South America, and North America, who formed independent settlements together...

, Yellow symbolizes the working class and especially the Red symbolizes the period of slavery and indentured, struck by a yellow star with five points.