Flag of Warsaw
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Design
The flag of the city of Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is a bicolour rectangle, divided into two horizontal stripes of equal width, yellow at the top, and red at the bottom. The flag doesn't have specified proportions, though popularly used proportions include 2:3 and 5:8.[1][2][3]
Its colours had been adopted from the coat of arms of the city, which depicts a mermaid with golden (yellow) sword, shield and hair, on the red background, and with a golden (yellow) crown above the escutcheon.[1][2]
| Colour | PANTONE Coated/ Uncoated |
CMYK | RAL | REPSOL GLASS | Folia ASLAN | Folia ORACAL | 3M (seria 100) | RGB |
| 116 C | 0:17:90:0 | 1003 | 3610 | 11913 | 020 | 100-25 | 255:214:0 | |
| 485 C | 0:95:100:0 | 3020 | 1670 | 11921 | 032 | 100-368 | 255:17:0 |
History
The yellow and red flag begun being used as the symbol of Warsaw in 1938, though without any official status.[4][2] The flag was officially adopted as the city symbol in 1991.[4]
See also
References
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- ↑ a b Skorupski, Jacek: Polskie flagi samorządowe Template:In lang. Template:Webarchive. In: Flaga. Biuletyn Polskiego Towarzystwa Weksykologicznego, vol. 7, p. 3, 2000. Polskie Towarzystwo Weksykologiczne.
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External links
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