Vexillological description
Paño de proporción 2:3, liso, de púrpura (morado), cargado en el centro con el escudo municipal.
- Campo
- de púrpura, liso.
- Escudo
- grande, centrado.
Flag of Guadalajara
The coat of arms of Guadalajara (Spain) has the following heraldic description: on a field of azure strewn with stars of silver, accompanied by a crescent of the same metal and paved with vert; a town of gold, walled and masoned of sable and lit of gules.
The flag, in figures
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
- Proportions
- 2:33 wide for every 2 high. 989 flags in the catalogue share it.
- Properties
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.- Use
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.- Colours
- Purple
- Blue
- White
- Yellow
- Green
- Black
- Red
- Coat of arms
- YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.
Take a closer look
The purple cloth
- 1
The coat of arms
- 2
The knight
- 3
The royal crown
How it is described
The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
Descripción heráldica
En campo de azur, sembrado de estrellas y un creciente contornado, de plata, un lienzo de muralla con torreones y puerta, también de plata, almenados, mazonados de sable y aclarados del mismo color, y el torreón donjonado con una bandera de gules, todo sobre una terraza de sinople; y en ésta, un guerrero de plata, cabalgando un caballo enjaezado de sable, que lleva un estandarte de plata con una cruz de gules, seguido de una hueste de peones de plata armados de lanza.
The colours of the arms
- Azur:
- blue
- Plata:
- white
- Sable:
- black
- Gules:
- red
- Sinople:
- green
Blasón según Heraldry of the World; sin norma localizada.
What it carries
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
The full story
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
How it came about
How it has changed
What it means
Fun facts
Location
Municipality facts
How many people live there, how big it is and what borders it.
- Population (2025)
- 92,834
- Area
- 235.51 km²
- pop./km²
- 394
- Elevation
- 708 m
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Sources
Text based on the article “Escudo de Guadalajara (España)” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Credits
Flag image: David Ll L, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
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