White, with the yellow and red logo of the department, which recalls the Catalan flag: the institutional flag of the Pyrénées-Orientales.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio in white. In the centre is placed the logo of the departmental council: a yellow square with four red strokes and the name of the department below.
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 the Pyrénées-Orientales is a white field, with the logo of the department in the centre. It carries no arms and no coat of arms.
The Pyrénées-Orientales is a department of France. Its flag is not a blazon: it is a field with the graphic mark the institution uses as its identity.
No approval date is recorded. These are recent flags, tied to the institutional branding of the departmental councils.
Ground
white.
Logo
the graphic mark of the departmental council.
No coat of arms
there are no arms, no crown and no crest.
The logo is a yellow square with four red diagonal strokes. The strokes cross the square rather than filling the ground: it is a minimal design, almost a typographic mark.
The Pyrénées-Orientales has the longest name of any department in France and is one of the largest by area. The logo reduces it to a square with four lines.
It borders Spain and Andorra. The logo does not mention the border: it is a graphic design, without castles or the towers other departments use.
Test what you have read about the flag of Departamento de Pirineos Orientales.
Flag image: Germenfer, Wikimedia Commons · CC0.
