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Flag of Territorio de la Capital Australiana

The current flag of the Australian Capital Territory was officially adopted by the Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory in 1993.

Flag of Territorio de la Capital Australiana
Coat of arms

The flag, in figures

Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.

Proportions
1:22 wide for every 1 high. 49 flags in the catalogue share it.
Properties
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
Use
Civil and stateFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.
Adopted
199325 of March de 1993 · 33 years ago
Colours
  • Blue
  • Yellow
  • White
Reference shades: the official one may vary slightly.
Coat of arms
YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.
12

Take a closer look

  1. The blue panel and the yellow field

  2. 1

    The five stars

  3. 2

    The shield and the swans

How it is described

The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.

Vexillological description

Bandera de proporción 1:2 dividida en dos partes verticales, azul junto al asta y amarilla en el resto.

Panel azul
un tercio del ancho, con cinco estrellas blancas que forman la Cruz del Sur.
Campo amarillo (oro)
dos tercios del ancho.
Escudo
centrado en el campo amarillo, con dos cisnes como soportes, uno azul y otro blanco.

Descripción heráldica

Armas de Canberra: de azur, un castillo de tres torres, entre, en jefe, una espada de la justicia con la punta hacia el siniestro, de plata con pomo y guarnición de oro, brochante una maza parlamentaria con la cabeza hacia el diestro, de oro, puestas en aspa y cargadas en su cruce de una corona imperial al natural, y en punta una rosa de plata, barbada y sembrada al natural (divisa de York). Soportes: a la diestra, un cisne de sable picado de gules; a la siniestra, un cisne blanco al natural.

The colours of the arms

Azur:
blue
Plata:
white
Oro:
yellow
Al natural:
in its real colours
Sable:
black
Gules:
red

Blasón de las armas de la ciudad de Canberra, según los Archivos Nacionales de Australia (vía Wikipedia en inglés); la bandera, adoptada por la Asamblea Legislativa del territorio en 1993, usa una versión modificada de ese escudo, sin cimera.

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

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Sources

Text based on the article “Bandera del Territorio de la Capital Australiana” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Credits

Flag image: Ivo Ostyn (Original Designer), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.

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