Flag of Warsaw explained

Flag of Warsaw
Use:	100000
Proportion:	2:3 (unofficial; popularly used) 5:8 (unofficial; popularly used)
Adoption:	1938
Design:	Horizontal bicolour of yellow (top) and red (bottom)

The flag of the city of Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is a bicolour rectangle, divided into two equally-sized horizontal stripes: yellow at the top, and red at the bottom. It began being used in 1938 without official status, and was officially adopted by the city, in 1991.

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]}

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]

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Colour

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PANTONE Coated/ Uncoated

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CMYK

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RAL

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REPSOL GLASS

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Folia ASLAN

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Folia ORACAL

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3M (seria 100)

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RGB

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116 C

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0:17:90:0

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1003

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3610

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11913

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020

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100-25

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255:214:0

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485 C

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0:95:100:0

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3020

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1670

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11921

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032

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100-368

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255:17:0

History

The yellow and red flag begun being used as the symbol of Warsaw in 1938, though without any official status.^{[3] [4]} The flag was officially adopted as the city symbol in 1991.^[3]

See also

• Coat of arms of Warsaw
• List of flags of the districts of Warsaw

Notes and References

1. Web site: Herb . um.warszawa.pl . pl . https://web.archive.org/web/20081225041229/http://um.warszawa.pl/herb/ . 25 December 2008 . dead.
2. Web site: Symbole m.st. Warszawy. um.warszawa.pl. pl.
3. Jacek Skorupski: Polskie flagi samorządowe. In: Flaga. Biuletyn Polskiego Towarzystwa Weksykologicznego, vol. 7, p. 3, 2000. Polskie Towarzystwo Weksykologiczne.
4. Jacek Skorupski: Flagi w Warszawie; In: Flaga. Biuletyn Polskiego Towarzystwa Weksykologicznego, vol. 12, p. 10, December 2000. Polskie Towarzystwo Weksykologiczne. ISSN 1509-2429.