Chita Region (Russia)

Читинская облас&

Last modified: 2005-08-19 by antonio martins
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• Presentation of Chita Region
• Alternate flag
• Description of the flag
• Borzya

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• Official region website, about the regional symbols.
  Reported by Dov Gutterman, 16 Dec 1998

Presentation of Chita Region

(Note: You need an Unicode-aware software and font to correctely view the cyrillic text on this page. See here transliteration details).

• Name (english): Chita Region • (russian): Читинская область | Ĉitinskaâ oblasth
  
• Capital (russian): Чита | Ĉita • (english): Chita
• Area: 412 500 km² (≅159 200 sq.mi.) • Population: 1 170 300 inhabitants in 2000 • (these figures not including Aghin Buriatia)
• Status: Region (область | oblasth) within the Russian Federation
• Federal District: Siberia • Economic region: East Siberia
• License plate code: 75 • Ham radio code: CT • ISO 3166-2 code: CHI
• Flag adopted on 1995.12.22 • Coat of arms adopted on 1995.12.22

Description of the flag

The law about Flag and Coat of arms of Chita Region was adopted on 22.12.1995.
Michael Simakov, quoting the Official region website

Alternate flag

Horizontal 1:2 tricolor of yellow-red-green, but the yellow stripe cover half of the flag, as displayed at the Catalonian Vexillological Association's on-line database on Russian flags, at http://www.acv.ptv.es/banrus/.
António Martins, 16 Nov 1998

Borzya
(Borzâ | Борзя)