Dark blue, with the white and orange logo “Nièvre - Conseil départemental”: the institutional flag of the department since late 2018.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, dark blue and plain. In the centre it bears the logo of the departmental council: an “N” drawn with an orange stroke and, beside it, the name of the department in white.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Nièvre is a dark blue field with the logo of the department in the centre. It carries no arms and no coat of arms.
Nièvre is a department of France. Its flag is not a blazon: it is a single-colour field with the graphic mark the institution uses as its identity.
The logo is the logo of the departmental council in the centre: an “N” drawn with an orange stroke, with the name of the department in white beside it. The difference with heraldic flags is total: where a coat of arms tells history with castles or lions, here there is a graphic design.
No approval date is recorded. These are recent flags, tied to the institutional branding of the departmental councils.
Ground
dark blue, plain and with no divisions.
Logo
the logo of the departmental council in the centre: an “N” drawn with an orange stroke, with the name of the department in white beside it.
No coat of arms
there are no arms, no crown and no crest.
The orange “N” on dark blue is the only combination in the collection with a warm-coloured initial on a cold ground. The contrast makes the letter stand out.
Nièvre owes its name to the Nièvre river, a tributary of the Loire. The logo does not draw it: it only uses the initial.
The “N” is drawn with a continuous stroke, like a signature. It is not a typeface: it is a gesture, which separates it from the typographic initials of Loire or Marne.
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Flag image: Germenfer, Wikimedia Commons · CC0.
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