Orel Region (Russia)

Orlovskaa^ oblasth

Last modified: 2005-05-07 by antónio martins
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• Presentation of Orel Region
• About the flag
• 1997 contest
• Orel City flag

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• Official law text
  reported by Jens Pattke, 11 Sep 2002
• Article about the flag (in russian)
  reported by Pascal Gross, 26 Nov 2002

Presentation of Orel 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): Orel Region • (russian): Орловская область | Orlovskaâ oblasth
  
• Capital (russian): Орёл | Orël • (english): Orel
• Area: 24 700 km² (≅9 500 sq.mi.) • Population: 892 300 inhabitants in 2000
• Status: Region (область | oblasth) within the Russian Federation
• Federal District: Central Region • Economic region: Center (central European Russia)
• License plate code: 57 • Ham radio code: OR • ISO 3166-2 code: ORL
• Flag adopted on 2002.07.31 • Coat of arms adopted on 2002.07.31

The inconsistency in spelling between "Orel" and "Oryol" is a difference in transliteration. The Russian letter is "e" with an umlaut over it, pronounced and [usually] transliterated "yo".
Joseph McMillan, 26 Nov 2001

Most of the times Russians donʼt write the "e+umlaut" letter, using a simple "e" instead, causing that it is sometimes transcribed "Orel" (or "Oryel") and others "Orël" (or "Oryol", "Orjol" etc.).
António Martins, 29 Nov 2002

About the flag

Flag and arms of Orol Oblast officially adopted on July, 31st 2002. The symbolic of the colors is described. More informations: http://www.rol.ru/news/misc/newsreg%20Feb%2007/31_024.htm (in Russian).
Jens Pattke, 11 Sep 2002

Appropriately, the an eagle shows on the coat of arms, since the word "orël" means "eagle".
Joseph McMi