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Flag of Côtes-d'Armor - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 21 November 2021
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Code: 22
Region: Bretagne
Traditional provinces: Brittany
(traditional Breton provinces of
Goëllo-Penthièvre and
Trégor)
Bordering departments:
Finistère,
Ille-et-Vilaine,
Morbihan
Area: 6,878 km2
Population (2016): 598,953 inhabitants
Préfecture: Saint-Brieuc
Sous-préfectures: Dinan,
Guingamp, Lannion
Subdivisions: 4 arrondissements, 27 cantons, 356 municipalities.
As requested by the General Council in 1962, the department changed on 27 February 1790 its name from Côtes-du-Nord (North Coasts) to Côtes-d'Armor. In Breton, armor, "the sea", was used to name all parts of Brittany close to the coasts, as opposed to argoat, "the land", used to name the inner parts of the country.
Ivan Sache, 11 April 2019
In 1985, the Alexandre agency created a rectangular logo,
which was adopted the same year as the flag of the department of
Côtes-du-Nord.
Blue symbolizes sea while green symbolizes land, the white "stripe" representing a stylized seagull and also the outline of the coast. The flag is always used without letterings.
When the name of the departement changed in 1990, the flag remained unchanged, a car sticker was offerred to all voters of the department, and every town hall was offerred a 1.20 x 1.80 m flag. The operation has been very successful so that the flag is now seen all over the departement.
[Les drapeaux bretons de 1188 à nos
jours [rau98]]
Ivan Sache, 8 September 2002
The flag of Côtes d'Armor is widely seen in the department, for example: photo from this page (departmental council, 2021), photo (Lamballe, 2018), photo (Ploufragan, 2018), photo (Binic-Étables-sur-Mer, 2016), photo (Perros-Guirec, 2018), photo (Saint-Quay-Portrieux, 2011), photo (Plérin, 2012).
Olivier Touzeau , 21 November 2021
Variant flags with full logo
Variant logo flags observed in use in the department - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 21 November 2021
The plain blue and green flag with a white coast is often seen in use in front of the city halls in the department, but besides some variants with text are in use:
Olivier Touzeau , 21 November 2021
Erroneous variant flags observed in use
Erroneous variant flags observed in use - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 21 November 2021
Thevariant flags seen in use in front of the city halls are sometimes errneous (examples: erro in the drawing of the coastline; bad font)
Olivier Touzeau , 21 November 2021
Former, unofficial flag of the department
Former, unofficial flag of the department - Image by Jaume Ollé, 8 September 2002
In the 1960s, Mr Morvan, the Head of the Technical Center of the municipality of Saint-Brieuc, designed a flag of the department of
Côtes-du-Nord.
The flag has a yellow border and is horizontally divided blue-white by a
zigzag line. The line represents the coast of the department, the
central triangle symbolizing Bay of Saint-Brieuc. The six ermine
spots placed in the white field symbolize Brittany.
Manufactured in 2 m x 2.50 m size, the width of the yellow border being 10 cm, the flag was used, unofficially, only in Saint-Brieuc, in public places. Its main use was associated with the Foire des Côtes-du-Nord, a fair organized each year in September. The flag was seen there for the last time in 1994.
Source: Les drapeaux bretons de 1188 à nos
jours [rau98]
[Les drapeaux bretons de 1188 à nos
jours [rau98]]
Ivan Sache, 8 September 2002