Municipality of La Jonquera (Alt Empordà County, Girona Province, Catalonia, Spain)

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2:3
by Blas Delgado
Flag adopted 18 February 1991

• Description

See also:

• Girona Province (Catalonia, Spain)
• Catalonia (Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain)
• Spain

White with a green bundle of rush bound with a yellow cord, as high as 7/9 of the flag's height. Ratio 2:3.

The flag is a banner of the arms (blazoned Argent, a bundle of rush Vert, tied Or). The bundle of rush (joncs) is canting. Flag adopted 18th February 1991. Source for image and text: Fluvià 2001.

La Jonquera is the main frontier post linking Spain with France in the eastern Pyrenees. Some additional information, extracted from this webpage of the Statistics Institute of Catalonia (Idescat):

Area (km2): 56.9
County: Alt Empordà
Population (2001): 2,636

Santiago Dotor, 17 Dec2001

Alternate Depiction

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image from Eduardo Panizo's Vexilla Hispanica, 25 Jul 2003