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REPUBLIC
CZECH
#C / CZECH REPUBLIC / Europe
.CZ
Official name:
Czech Republic
*Czech / Česká Republika
Capital: Prague
Idiom: Czech
Form of Government: Parlamentary republic
Currency: Czech crown
Demonym: Czech/-ca
Administrative divition: 13 Regions and 1 Capital City
FLAG
The national flag of the Czech Republic is the same as the flag of the former Czechoslovakia. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, the Czech Republic kept the Czechoslovakian flag while Slovakia adopted its own flag. The first flag of Czechoslovakia was based on the Bohemian flag and was white on red. This was nearly identical to the flag of Poland (only the ratio was different), so a blue triangle was added to the hoist in 1920. The flag was banned by the Nazis in 1939 when they established a government nominally in control of Bohemia and Moravia, and a horizontal tricolor of white, red and blue was used during the war. The 1920 flag was restored in 1945.
The authorship of the current flag is somewhat disputed, but most vexillologists consider the author to be Jaroslav Kursa (1875-1950), an archivist at the Department of Internal Affairs. This flag was officially approved by the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia on March 30, 1920.
National flag
Ratio: 2 x 3
The traditional colors of the Czech lands originated from a coat of arms from 1192 (depicting a rampant lion with a double silver tail on a red field).
After the establishment of an independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, the country had been using the red and white Bohemian flag, identical to the Polish flag. Following calls for the fledgling state to adopt a new flag, a committee chose a design by Jaroslav Kursa, an archivist at the Czechoslovak Interior Ministry. His design included the red and white horizontal stripes derived from the Bohemian coat of arms and added a blue chevron extended halfway.
The flag was officially approved by the Czechoslovak National Assembly on March 30, 1920, and has been in continuous use ever since, with the exception of the German occupation of Czechoslovakia during World War II. Also, for a short period after the Velvet Revolution, between 1990 and 1992, the Czech part of the Czechoslovak federal state adopted the previous red and white flag.
During the 1992 negotiations on the break-up of Czechoslovakia, a clause was inserted in the legislation regarding the dissolution of the federation, prohibiting the use of the state symbols of Czechoslovakia by any successor state. However, the Czech Republic maintained the use of the flag.
OTHER FLAGS
Presidential Banner
Ratio: 1 x 1
CONSTRUCTION
A : 3 | B : 2
COLORS
37 %
Red
HEX CODE
# d7141a
37 %
White
HEX CODE
#ffffff
26 %
Blue
HEX CODE
# 11457e
HISTORY
Flag of
Czechoslovakia
1918 - 1920
Flag of
Bohemia and Moravia
1939 - 1945
Flag of
Czechoslovakia
1945 - 1992
flag of the
Czech Republic
1990 - 1992
Flag of
Czechoslovakia
1918 - 1920
Flag of
Czechoslovakia
1945 - 1992
Flag of
Bohemia and Moravia
1939 - 1945
Flag of
Czechoslovakia
1945 - 1992
REGIONAL FLAGS
flag of the
City of
prague
flag of the
region of
Central Bohemia
flag of the
region of
South Bohemia
flag of the
region of
Hradec Kralove
flag of the
region of
Karlovy Vary
flag of the
region of
Liberec
flag of the
region of
South Moravia
flag of the
region of
Moravia - Silesia
flag of the
region of
Olomouc
flag of the
region of
Pardubice
flag of the
region of
Pilsen
flag of the
region of
Usti nad Labem
flag of the
region of
Vysocina
flag of the
region of
Zlín
SHIELD
The coat of arms of the Czech Republic unites the coats of arms of the three historical territories that make up the current Czech Republic. It is a quartered shield, in the first and fourth quarters of gules a lion rampant and forked in silver, armed, lampasado and crowned in gold, which symbolizes Bohemia. In the second of azure, a checkered or checkered eagle of gules and silver, armed and crowned with gold, which represents Moravia; and in the third, in gold, a saber eagle armed with gules, crowned with gold and charged with a silver crescent finished in three crosses of the same metal, which is the shield of a part of Silesia.
This shield is known as a large shield. The small one (with a single field) is that of Bohemia, which is currently not officially the national coat of arms.
