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
Flag of Warsaw, with the proportions of 2:3.
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]
^ ab"Herb". um.warszawa.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 25 December 2008.
^ abcJacek Skorupski: Flagi w Warszawie; In: Flaga. Biuletyn Polskiego Towarzystwa Weksykologicznego, vol. 12, p. 10, December 2000. Polskie Towarzystwo Weksykologiczne. ISSN 1509-2429.
^ abJacek Skorupski: Polskie flagi samorządowe. In: Flaga. Biuletyn Polskiego Towarzystwa Weksykologicznego, vol. 7, p. 3, 2000. Polskie Towarzystwo Weksykologiczne.
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