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Oppland (Norway)

Last modified: 2020-02-15 by rob raeside
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image by Tomislav Šipek, 19 February 2017

• Description of the flag
• Status of the flag
• Communes
• Square version

See also:

• Innlandet
• Norway
• Norwegian county flags

Description of the flag

A white mogop (Anemone vernalis) on a green field. Not sure what the correct proportions are. The designer was Arvid Sveen. The colour green was chosen to symbolise forestry and agriculture.
Jan Oskar Engene, 19 November 1995

Status of the flag

Flag adopted 18 May 1989.
Jan Oskar Engene, 19 November 1995

In 2017 the government decided to abolish some counties and merge them with other counties to form larger ones, reducing the number of counties from 19 to 11, to be implemented from 2020.:"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_Norway
Oppland and Hedmark will be known as Innlandet.
Valentin Poposki, 16 January 2020

Square Version

image by Tomislav Šipek, 19 February 2017

Digital Archive shows an 8:11 version of the flag, but the Norwegian Wikipedia shows it at 1:1.
Tomislav Šipek, 19 February 2017

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