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| Use | Civil and state flag |
|---|---|
| Proportion | 2:3 |
| Adopted | 23 February 1917 |
The flag of Pernambuco is one of the official symbols of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.[1][2] It is a bicolor pennant, blue and white, with the colors broken horizontally into two unequal sections, with blue in the upper and larger rectangle, the rainbow composed of three colors, red, yellow and green, with a star in above and below the sun, inside the semicircle, both in yellow, and, in the lower and smaller white rectangle, a red cross.[3][4]
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- ^ Clóvis Ribeiro (1933), Brazões e Bandeiras do Brasil (in Portuguese), Illustrator: José Wasth Rodrigues, São Paulo: São Paulo Editora, p. 387, OCLC 1297560, Wikidata Q105417680
- ^ "Alepe Legis - Portal da Legislação Estadual de Pernambuco". Alepe Legis - Portal da Legislação Estadual (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-11-22.
- ^ Manual de Construção da Bandeira de Pernambuco (PDF). 2020. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-11-23. Retrieved 2022-11-23.