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'''Level Flags''',<ref>''Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!'' SNES instruction booklet, page 23.</ref><ref>''Donkey Kong Country 3'' GBA instruction booklet, page 27.</ref> also known as '''End of Level Flags''',<ref>''Donkey Kong Land III'' instruction booklet, page 16.</ref> are objects that appear at the end of every [[level]] in ''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!]]'' and ''[[Donkey Kong Land III]]''. They are the successor to the [[End of Level Target]]s from ''[[Donkey Kong Country 2]]''. Level Flags are connected to a flagpole, and can be pulled upward from a rope attached to it. [[Dixie Kong|Dixie]] and [[Kiddy Kong|Kiddy]] can pull a Level Flag to end the level and return to the [[map screen]].

Every incomplete level is marked by a black [[Krem Flag]] on the map screen. The [[Kong]]s can supersede it by completing a level and activating its Level Flag. This involves [[jump]]ing and pulling at its rope, which ascends its white flag into the air. As it raises, the flag changes color based on which Kong pulled it: either pink for Dixie or blue for Kiddy, or purple for Dixie or green for Kiddy if the player is using the [[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!#Super Nintendo version|"COLOR" cheat code]]. The flag also flies if the Kongs obtain every [[Bonus Coin (Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!)|Bonus Coin]] of the level.

In ''Donkey Kong Land III'', the End of Level Flag raises automatically if either Dixie or Kiddy walk into it. Because of the [[Game Boy]]'s limited color palette, the raised End of Level Flag is not color-coded based on which Kong finished the level. End of Level Flags also appear at the end of underwater levels, which does not occur in ''Donkey Kong Country 3''.

|The level is completed but not every Bonus Coin was collected. Its color is based on the clothes of the Kong who completed the level. The "COLOR" cheat is used for the alternative colors.

|An additional golden pennant that appears on the world map if the player collects the DK Coin of that level. Only appears after the level is completed.

Level Flag art.png|Alternate artwork.

End of Level Flag.png|An unraised Level Flag from within a level.

|Jap=ゴールフラッグ<ref>''Super Donkey Kong 3: Nazo no Kremis-tō'' instruction booklet, page 29.</ref>

*''[[Super Mario 3D World]]'' uses a similar method of displaying the levels in the map screen. Uncompleted levels display a black flag with a white symbol. After completing the level, the flag gains the character's color and emblem. The flag turns golden if the player hits its top. Finally, a green star appears at the top of the flag pole if all three [[Green Star]]s of the level are collected.