Flag of New Mexico

State of New Mexico

Use	Civil and state flag
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	March 15, 1925; 99 years ago (1925-03-15)
Design	The red and gold (yellow) of old Spain. The ancient Zia sun symbol in red on a field of yellow.
Designed by	Reba Mera[1][2]

The official flag of New Mexico, a subnational polity of the United States, consists of a red sun symbol of the Zia people on a field of gold (yellow). It was officially adopted in 1925 to highlight the state's Native American and Hispano heritage: It combines a symbol of the Puebloan people, who have ancient roots in the state, with the colors of the flag of Spain, which established and ruled Nuevo México for over two and a half centuries.

The New Mexico flag is among the most unique and iconic in the U.S.,^[3] and has been noted for its simple and aesthetically pleasing design.^[4] It is one of four U.S. state flags without the color blue (along with Alabama, California, and Maryland) and the only one among the four without the color white.^{[5][note 1]} Along with Oklahoma, New Mexico is the only state that depicts Native American iconography in its flag.^{[note 2]}

The proportions of the symbol are fixed by New Mexico law: the four groups of rays are set at right angles, with the two inner rays one-fifth longer than the outer rays, and the diameter of the circle in the center is one-third the width of the symbol.^[6]

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