The Provincial Council of Almería adopted in 2017 a white flag with a red Cross of St George and a coat of arms, after years of using a green one that was never official.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
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It is a rectangular field with a 7:11 ratio, white, with a red Cross of St George that covers the whole field and the coat of arms of the province in the centre.
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 the province of Almería is a white field with a red Cross of St George crossing it from side to side and the coat of arms of the province in the centre. It is the official flag since 2017.
The Provincial Council of Almería adopted this flag in 2017. Before that a green flag was used that never became official: it was a provisional coat of arms applied to a coloured field, with no administrative backing.
The change of 2017 was precisely the recognition of what was already being flown. The white flag with the Cross of St George and the coat of arms is the first official banner of the province; the earlier green one was a de facto use.
White
the colour of the field. There are no other divisions or borders.
Red Cross of St George
its vertical and horizontal arms run from side to side and reach the edges, so that the coat of arms ends up on the crossing.
Coat of arms
large, in the centre, covering the crossing of the cross. It has a white border that separates it from the red background.
The Provincial Council of Almería had been using a green flag for years that was never official. The 2017 one legalises a prior use, but it also changes the colour: it is the moment a custom becomes an administrative act.
The provincial coat of arms is placed over the crossing of the cross, not beside it. The white border around it stops the edges from mixing: it is a contrast solution, usual when one coloured figure goes over another.
The flag of the province uses a 7:11 ratio, which is unusual. Municipal flags are almost always 2:3, but provincial flags and those of the provincial councils may use other ratios.
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Text based on the article “Province of Almería flag (FOTW)” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Flag image: Almju, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
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