Flag of New Orleans

City of New Orleans
Use	Other
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	January 1918
Design	Three yellow fleurs-de-lis on white field atop blue stripe and underneath red stripe, with the white field five times the width of the stripes.
Designed by	Bernard Barry and Gustave Couret

The municipal flag of New Orleans is the representative banner of the U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana. The flag has a large white field that contains three gold fleurs-de-lis and is bordered on the top by a red stripe and from below by a blue stripe. The presence of the fleur-de-lis, a stylized depiction of a flower and a traditional French symbol demonstrates the city's French heritage and strong ties to France, while the presence of the design being a Spanish fess demonstrates the city's Spanish heritage and strong ties to Spain.

^ "Sec. 2-2. - Official flag of city—Described". Code of Ordinances of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana. 1956. The official flag of the city shall be according to the design accepted and approved by the Bienville Bicentennial Celebration Committee through its flag committee which consists of a white field five-sevenths wide, with a brilliant crimson stripe one-seventh wide at the top, and a brilliant blue stripe one-seventh wide at the bottom, the relative proportions of the flag to be two by three. There shall be three fleur-de-lys in the center of the white field, the height of each of which shall be one-fourth of the height of the white field and to locate their position there must be drawn an inverted equilateral triangle with an altitude of one-third the height of the white field, each angle marking the center of the fleur-de-lys, the whole according to the design marked exhibit B-B attached to the ordinance from which this section was derived.

[1] "Sec. 2-2. - Official flag of city—Described". Code of Ordinances of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana. 1956. The official flag of the city shall be according to the design accepted and approved by the Bienville Bicentennial Celebration Committee through its flag committee which consists of a white field five-sevenths wide, with a brilliant crimson stripe one-seventh wide at the top, and a brilliant blue stripe one-seventh wide at the bottom, the relative proportions of the flag to be two by three. There shall be three fleur-de-lys in the center of the white field, the height of each of which shall be one-fourth of the height of the white field and to locate their position there must be drawn an inverted equilateral triangle with an altitude of one-third the height of the white field, each angle marking the center of the fleur-de-lys, the whole according to the design marked exhibit B-B attached to the ordinance from which this section was derived.

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Use	Other
Proportion	2:3^[1]
Adopted	January 1918 (1918-01)
Design	Three yellow fleurs-de-lis on white field atop blue stripe and underneath red stripe, with the white field five times the width of the stripes.
Designed by	Bernard Barry and Gustave Couret