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Luxembourg (Province, Belgium)

Luxemburg

Flag of the Province of Luxembourg - Image by Mark Sensen, 19 April 2001, arms from the official provincial website

Official flag of the Province of Luxembourg
Unofficial banner of arms of the Province of Luxembourg
Colours of the Province of Luxembourg
Honorary and car flags of the Governor of the Province of Luxembourg

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Official flag of the Province of Luxembourg

The flag of the Province of Luxembourg is the flag of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, horizontally divided red-white-blue, with the provincial coat of arms in the middle, surmounted by a Ducal coronet. The arms are fessy five pieces argent five pieces azure overall a forked-tail lion gules corwned armed and langued or.

Michel Lupant, 27 March 1997

Unofficial banner of arms of the Province of Luxembourg

Unofficial flag of the Province of Luxembourg - Image by Geraard van der Vaart, 19 April 2001

The traditional banner of arms of the Province of Luxembourg (fessy five pieces argent five pieces azure overall a forked-tail lion gules corwned armed and langued or [Luxembourg]) is used as the unofficial flag of the Province.

Ivan Sache, 3 February 2007

Colours of the Province of Luxembourg

Colours of the Province of Luxembourg - Image by Mark Sensen, 6 February 2001

The Province of Luxembourg used, unofficially, colours taken from the arms. These colours were not fixed.
A chart called Vlaggen der Belgische Provincies - Drapeaux des Provinces Belges (Flags of the Belgian Provinces; not dated, but to judge from the font type used, from the 1920s-1930s), as well as some Dutch atlases and books about the provinces, published by Rudi Koot in Vexilla Nostra [vxn]#185 (1993) p. 32-33, show the colours of Luxembourg as horizontally divided red-white-blue.

Mark Sensen, 6 February 2001

Honorary and car flag of the Governor of the Province of Luxembourg

Flags of the Governor of the Province of Luxembourg
left, honorary flag - Image by Mark Sensen, 27 January 2001
right, car flag - Image by Jorge Hurtado, 19 April 2001

The honorary flags of the Province Governors were adopted by Council Order on 28 October 1936. They are shown with construction details on a book (bilingual Dutch and French) containing regulations (for the Navy?). Each flag is a square version of the Belgian national flag with the respective province arms in the center of the black stripe. The flag is 150 x 150 cm, therefore each stripe is 50 cm in width. The shield is 43.5 cm in width and 50 cm in height, excluding 3.75 cm for the point of the shield.

Mark Sensen, 27 January 2001

The car flag of the Governor of the Province of Luxembourg, as reported by Michel Lupant in Gaceta de Banderas [gdb] #65, November 2000, is a rectangular Belgian national flag with a modified version of the provincial coat of arms in the middle.

Jorge Hurtado, 19 April 2001