Gotland (Sweden)

Last modified: 2005-06-03 by phil nelson
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by Jan Oskar Engene
The flag is a banner of the arms;
arms dating from 1560, revised grant on 15 May 1936.

• Description of the flag
• History and Geography
• Sources
• Blazon

   

See also:

• County of Gotland (Gotlands län)
• Municipality of Gotland (Gotlands kommun)
• Gotland, unofficial flags and flag proposals
  • Unofficial flag of the "Republic of Gotland" (Gutniska Republiken)
  • A proposed Scandinavian cross flag for Gotland
• Götaland
• Regional flags (Sweden)
• Clickable map of Sweden (landskap/provinces)
• Sweden

Gotland: Description of the flag

The flag has a blue field with a white standing ram, horns and hooves yellow, carrying a cross staff with a red flag bordered in yellow and with five tails also in yellow. The current version was introduced by the National Archives of Sweden in 1990 and is in content identical to the arms granted by the king in 1936. A version from 1884 had an Agnus Dei instead of the ram. The image shows the flag as a banner of the arms with proportions 1:1. Real flags sold and used in Gotland are rectangular.

History and Geography

Gotland is an island in the Baltic Sea. The island is historically one of Sweden's 24 provinces. All of these prov