Fryslan polderboards (The Netherlands)

Wetterskippen

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Boarn en Klif polderboard

Official name: Wetterskip Boarn en Klif; seat: Joure, Fryslân province.
Flag adopted 22 Mar 1998; design: drs. J. Hagen and the High Council of Nobility.
Flagdescription: Two vertical stripes proportiones 1:2; the first stripe yellow with three narrow connected black lozenges, touching all sides of the yellow field and interrupted by a horizontal yellow stripe of 1/10 flagheight; the second stripe in three wavy horizontal stripes red - white - red, proportioned 2:1:2".
On 1 Jan 1997 the polderboards of Boarnferd and Tusken Mar en Klif and small parts of De Stellingwerven and Tjonger Compagnonsvaarten merged to form the new polderboard Boarn en Klif. The arms were granted on 2 Mar 1999, so after the new flag had been adopted.
The polderboard consists of peat-soil in the west and sandy soil in the east. Red on the flag represen