Flag of Warsaw

Official flag of Warsaw, Poland

2:3 (unofficial; popularly used)
5:8 (unofficial; popularly used)

Adopted1938DesignHorizontal 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]^[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]

References

^ ^a ^b "Herb". um.warszawa.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 25 December 2008.
^ ^a ^b ^c Jacek Skorupski: Flagi w Warszawie; In: Flaga. Biuletyn Polskiego Towarzystwa Weksykologicznego, vol. 12, p. 10, December 2000. Polskie Towarzystwo Weksykologiczne. ISSN 1509-2429.
^ "Symbole m.st. Warszawy". um.warszawa.pl (in Polish).
^ ^a ^b Jacek Skorupski: Polskie flagi samorządowe. In: Flaga. Biuletyn Polskiego Towarzystwa Weksykologicznego, vol. 7, p. 3, 2000. Polskie Towarzystwo Weksykologiczne.

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