Maritime Territory (Russia)

Primore

Last modified: 2005-08-19 by antonio martins
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• Presentation of Maritime Territory
• Description of the flag
• Flag charged with the Coat of Arms
• Unofficial flag of 1992-1993
• Coat of arms of Maritime Territory

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  Reported by Dov Gutterman, 18 Dec 1998

Presentation of Maritime Territory

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

• Name (english): Maritime Territory • (russian, short form): Приморье | Primorhe • (russian, long form): Приморский край | Primorskiĭ kraĭ
• Capital: Владивосток | Vladivostok
• Area: 165 900 km² (≅64 000 sq.mi.) • Population: 2 157 700 inhabitants in 2000
• Status: Territory (край | kraĭ) within the Russian Federation
• Federal District: Far-East • Economic region: Far East
• License plate code: 25 • Ham radio code: PK • ISO 3166-2 code: PRI
• Flag adopted on 1995.02.22 • Coat of arms adopted on unkn. date

Description of the flag

There's a curious thing about this flag: The law prescribes the shade of blue as «light blue (azure)» («ãîëóáîãî (ëàçîðåâîãî) | golubogo (lazorevogo)»), but at the same time says that the shades of blue and red should be identical to those of the russian national flag — whose law prescribes for blue simply plain «blue» (ñèíèé | sinii~). I'm ready to bet that actual Maritime Territorry flags use this medium blue and not any supposed “light blue / azure”.
António Martins, 11 Apr 2000

The tiger only is also on the flag. The flag has the proportions 2:3. It is diagonally (bottom left to top right) divided by a white stripe. The upper field is red and the lower blue. Th