Red, with the name “somme” in white and the mention “Le Conseil départemental”: the institutional flag of the department, the rectangular version of its logo.
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 plain rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio in dark red, with the logo of the departmental council 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 Somme is a dark red field, with the logo of the department in the centre. It carries no arms and no coat of arms.
Somme is a department of France. Its flag is not a coat of arms: it is a field carrying the graphic identity the institution uses as its brand.
No approval date is recorded. These are recent flags, tied to the institutional identity of the departmental councils.
Field
dark red.
Logo
the graphic identity of the departmental council.
No arms
there are no arms, crown or helm.
The flag of Somme is as simple as possible: a dark red ground and the word “somme” in white. There is no figure, no border, no arms.
The dark red is not just an “off red”: the description identifies it as Pantone 201. That is the level of precision of a graphic identity, not of traditional heraldry.
Within the word “somme”, the “m” is in bold. The department has highlighted a single letter of its name: the most advertising device in the whole collection.
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Flag image: Germenfer, Wikimedia Commons · CC0.
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