White, with the red and black logo of the departmental council: the institutional flag of Gironde, last changed in 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, white, with the logo of the departmental council: a red and black figure, with the name of the department beside it. It carries no arms and no division of the ground.
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 Gironde is a white field with the logo of the department in the centre. It carries no arms and no coat of arms.
Gironde 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: a black hexagon with a red four-sided shape on top. 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.
Field
white, plain and with no divisions.
Logo
the logo of the departmental council in the centre: a black hexagon with a red four-sided shape on top.
No coat of arms
there are no arms, no crown and no crest.
The logo of Gironde is a geometric figure: a black hexagon with a red shape on top. There is no image of the territory nor a single reference to the wine harvest or the river.
Gironde is one of the departments that most identified with its arms —with the Bourbon cross and the broken chains—. The current logo preserves none of that.
The approval date is not recorded. Logo flags usually have no decree: they are designed as communication pieces and introduced by decision of the council.
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Flag image: Germenfer, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
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