Hauts-de-Seine (Department, France)

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by Jaume Ollé

• Administrative data
• Description of the flag
• Flag of the General Council

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• Hauts-de-Seine (Department, France): Municipal flags
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Administrative data

Code: 92
Region: Ile-de-France
Traditional province: Ile-de-France
Bordering departments: Paris, Yvelines, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne, Val-d'Oise

Area: 176 km²
Population (1995): 1,405,300 inhabitants

Préfecture: Nanterre
Sous-préfectures: Antony, Boulogne-Billancourt
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 45 cantons, 36 communes.

The department is named after the river Seine.
It was created in 1964 when the former departments of Seine (75) and Seine-et-Oise (78) were divided.

Description of the flag

The flag is based on the shield adopted 1 June 1970. The shield has on azure the golden fleur de lys (based on the arms of the city of Antony); on gules the ship of argent (based on the arms of the city of Boulogne-Billancourt); in chief argent with an azure wave (based on the arms of the city of Nanterre).

Source: Lucien Philippe, Les drapeaux de la région d'Ile-de-France. Emblèmes et pavillons [eep] #17 (January 1989)

Jaume Ollé, 26 December 1997

Flag of the General Council

by Jaume Ollé

This shield in white/blue was used after 1982 in the flag of the General Council, which also bears the number 92 (code of the département).

Source: Lucien Philippe, Les drapeaux de la région d'Île-de-France. Emblèmes et pavillons [eep] #17 (January 1989)

Jaume Ollé, 26 December 1997