The city was briefly renamed from Astana to Nur-Sultan in 2019 after the resignation of long-time former President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. This meant that the flag and coat of arms were changed on 3 May 2019 to include the name Nur-Sultan in a Latin script. However, when the city's name changed back to Astana on 13 September 2022, it reinstated the 2008 version of the flag and coat of arms with the name Astana in a Cyrillic script. In January 2023, the version written in Latin letters began to be used.
