Flag of Amur

The flag of Amur is a field with three horizontal stripes: red on top, white in the middle and blue below. The two lower stripes have their edges in the shape of a wave.

How it came about

Amur is an oblast at the far east of Russia, on the border with China. The adoption date on record is 1999.

The design is three colours —red, white and blue— with two wavy lines separating the white stripe from the red one and from the blue one. There is no figure at all: no coat of arms, no stars, no text.

How it has changed

No earlier versions are documented.

What it means

• Upper stripe

  red, in a single colour. It takes up a little over half the height.

• Middle stripe

  white, the same width as the blue one, with both edges wavy.

• Lower stripe

  blue, with a wavy upper edge.

• Waves

  two parallel lines with about three crests each along the field.

• No figures

  no coat of arms, no stars, no text.

Fun facts

1. The stripes are not straight

   Of the three stripes, only the red one is straight. The white and the blue have their edges in the shape of a wave, and the two wavy lines run parallel. It is the only flag in the collection whose field itself undulates instead of being plain.

2. A flag of pure colour

   There is no coat of arms, no star, no emblem of any kind. The three colours and the two waves are the whole design. It is the opposite case to the Spanish municipal flags, where the central figure is the norm.

3. The waves are the reverse of the colour order

   The white stripe is in the middle and the blue one below, but it is the blue that ends up under the wave. The order of the colours is red, white and blue, the usual one in Slavic flags.

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