Galician Nationalist Parties (Spain)

Last modified: 2004-06-12 by santiago dotor
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• Galician Nationalist Flag
• Flag Variants
• Galician Nationalist Bloc (Bloque Nacionalista Galego)
• Unidentified flag, possibly political )

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• Galicia
• Spanish Political Parties and Movements
• Spain

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by António Martins

This flag used by the BNG is made in such a way that one of the five-pointed star sides is parallel to the blue stripe. At first I thought this was because it is like that in the BNG logo, but then I found a photograph in that BNG website with one such flag in a BNG demonstration. Obviously this implies a certain proportion of the flag if the star is to be upright, namely that the ratio must be such that it bears a 36º angle (for a 360º circumference). This means an approximate ratio of 8:11.

Santiago Dotor, 27 October 1998

The stripe should also be thinner [see variants below], so the other side would not show between the "N" (90 deg.) and "NE" (18 deg.) points of the star. I recently learnt from a Galician visitor of my website that this flag is used not only by BNG, but by all separatist, independentist and/or integrationist (i.e. seek