Three golden lions with a blue crown on a red field: the armorial banner of the Périgord, which matches Dordogne, with no official status.
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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 rectangular field —the field is the cloth of the flag —with a 2:3 ratio, red, with three yellow lions rampant.
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 Dordogne is a red field with three yellow lions rampant: two at the top and one below.
Dordogne is a department in south-western France. Its flag is an armorial banner without a frame.
The three lions have blue crowns, tongues and claws. That detail is what makes them read as three figures rather than as yellow blotches.
It has never changed. No approval date is recorded.
Red
the background of the field, plain and with no border.
Three yellow lions
standing on their hind legs. Two at the top and one below.
Details
blue crown, tongue and claws on each lion.
No coat of arms
there is no coat of arms and no canton.
They are not in a row. That arrangement in three is the traditional one for a shield of lions.
The lions have blue tongues and claws on the red. Without that detail, the lions would be yellow on the same ground.
The field carries no coat of arms on top and no canton. The arms of the department are directly the ground and its three figures.
Test what you have read about the flag of Department of Dordogne.
Flag image: Spedona, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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