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![[Flag]](../images/f/fr-17.gif)
Flag of Charente-Maritime - Image by Ivan Sache, 26 September 2009
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Code: 17
Region: Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Poitou-Charentes until 2014)
Traditional provinces: Aunis,
Saintonge, Poitou
Bordering departments: Charente,
Gironde,
Deux-Sèvres,
Vendée
Area: 6,864 km2
Population (2016): 642,191 inhabitants
Préfecture: La
Rochelle
Sous-préfectures: Jonzac, Rochefort, Saintes,
Saint-Jean d'Angély
Subdivisions: 5 arrondissements, 27 cantons, 463 municipalities.
The department is named after river Charente (360 km), a tributary to the Atlantic Ocean. Formerly known as Charente-Inférieure (Lower Charente), the department was renamed to Charente-Maritime on 4 September 1941.
Ivan Sache, 11 April 2019
In 2008, the General Council changed the department's logo and flag. The current flag is white with blue-white-green stripes on top and bottom, with proportions 13:2:7:106:7:2:13 and, in the middle, elements of the logo of the Department.
The logo of the Department of Charente-Maritime is made of two birds,
blue and green, respectively, flanked in NW by a golden quarter of
circle and with the writing "la / Charente / Maritime" in blue
letters. On the flag, the writing appears as "la Charente / Maritime"
on the left of the birds.
The two birds already appeared on the previous logo of the department.
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Former flag of Charente-Maritime - Image by Pascal Gross, 12 August 2000
The official symbolism of the flag is the following:
Two seagulls are flying in unison. The land bird is green, the sea bird is blue. In Charente-Maritime, land and sea are the assets of our success and the promises for our future. This symbol of harmony and balance is inviting all the inhabitants and friends of Charente-Maritime to unite in order to support Charente-Maritime and take part to its flight.
Ivan Sache, 15 September 2001, after information kindly provided by Cécile Cassara (PR Director of the General Council of Charente-Maritime)
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