Red, with a white cross: it is the traditional flag of Savoy, which the department of Savoie sometimes uses with the name “Savoie” on the cross.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
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It is a rectangular field with a 3:5 ratio in red with a white cross centred, whose four arms reach the edges.
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 Savoy is a red field with a white cross centred whose four arms reach the edges.
Savoy is a region of the Alps. Its flag bears a white cross that occupies the whole field. Sometimes the cross carries “Savoie” written on its two horizontal arms.
No approval date is recorded.
Red
the ground of the field.
White cross
centred, with the four arms equal to the edge.
Ratio
3:5, taller than the usual one.
Optional text
“Savoie” on the horizontal arms.
The arms of the cross reach the edge of the field. There is no margin: the cross divides the whole ground into four red quarters.
The design admits a variant with “Savoie” written on the two horizontal arms of the cross. It is an optional addition to a design that already works without it.
Savoy uses 3:5, not the usual 2:3. It is the same tall ratio as Cantal, chosen so that the tall cross asserts itself.
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Flag image: Patricia.fidi, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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