Golden fleurs-de-lis on blue, a wavy white stripe and a red border: the armorial banner of Cher, which recalls the river of the same name.
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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 rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio in which the coat of arms takes up the whole ground: blue, sown with golden fleurs-de-lis, with a wavy white stripe and a red border.
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 associated with Cher is a blue field sown with golden fleurs-de-lis, with a wavy white stripe from side to side and a red border.
Cher is a department in central France. Its flag is the coat of arms stretched over the whole field: there is no coat of arms glued on top.
The wavy white stripe is the River Cher, which gives the department its name.
It has never changed. No approval date is recorded.
Blue
the ground, with many golden fleurs-de-lis spread equally.
Wavy stripe
white, from side to side, above the flowers.
Border
red, all around the field.
The description says so expressly: there is no coat of arms glued on top. The field, the charge and the bordure of the shield are directly on the cloth.
The fleurs-de-lis are from the French crown; the wavy stripe is the local river. It is the usual mix in the departments.
With a stripe crossing from side to side, the red border on all four sides is what gives the whole a closed frame.
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Flag image: Spedona, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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