New Mexico (U.S.)

Last modified: 2005-02-12 by rick wyatt
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by Mario Fabretto, 24 February 1998

• Description of the flag
• History of the flag
• Traces of "Old Mexico"
• Unusual Flag Ceremony

Municipal flags:

• Albuquerque
• Roswell
• New Mexico municipalities with incomplete flag information

County flags:

• Mora County
• New Mexico counties with incomplete flag information

See also:

• First flag of New Mexico 
• United States of America
• States of the United States

In 1912, two stars were added, representing Arizona and New Mexico, bringing the total number of stars on the U.S. flag to 48. There were thirteen stripes representing the thirteen original colonies.

New Mexico Statutes Annotated
12-3-2. [Adoption of flag for state of New Mexico.] That a flag be and the same is hereby adopted to be used on all occasions when the state is officially and publicly represented, with the privilege of use by all citizens upon such occasions as they may deem fitting and appropriate. Said flag shall be the ancient Zia sun symbol of red in the center of a field of yellow. The colors shall be the red and yellow of old Spain. The proportion of the flag shall be a width of two-thirds its length. The sun symbol shall be one-third of the length of the flag. Said symbol shall have four groups of rays set at right angles; each group shall consist of four rays, the two inner rays of the group shall be one-fifth longer than the outer