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Code: 13
Region: Provence-Alpes-Côte
d'Azur
Traditional provinces:
Provence
Bordering departments: Gard,
Var, Vaucluse
Area: 5,087 km2
Population (2016): 2,019,717 inhabitants
Préfecture:
Marseilles
Sous-préfectures:
Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Istres
Subdivisions: 4 arrondissements, 29 cantons, 119 municipalities.
The department is named after the mouth (bouches) of river Rhône (812 km, 522 of them in France), tributary of the Mediterranean Sea.
The flag flown by the department (photo, photo, photo, photo), at least since 2008, is white with the graphic part of the department's logo, without any lettering.
Olivier Touzeau, 22 February 2019The General Council of Bouches-du-Rhône used, mostly, two flags, both
white with the logo of the General Council but differing by their
proportions and rendition of the logo.
The rectangular flag shows the square logo flanked on its right by the
writing "CONSEIL / GENERAL / BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE" in black letters.
The square flag shows the square logo surmounting the writing "CONSEIL
GENERAL" in black letters.
The logo of the General Council of Bouches-du-Rhône is made of a
yellow disk charged with a blue "13", the official number of the
department, and placed on a blue square, in front of a ribbon
horizontally divided light blue-white-red.
The specific style of the "13" is probably to give the impression
of a "B", the first letter of the name.
Ivan Sache, Dominique Cureau & Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 25 September 2009