Bolivian subnational flags

Last modified: 2006-07-15 by antonio martins
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• About bolivian departments
• About bolivian departmental flags

• Departments:
  • Beni
  • Chuquisaca
  • Cochabamba
  • La Paz
  • Oruro
  • Pando
  • Potosí
  • Santa Cruz
  • Tarija
  • Litoral de Atacama (claim)
• Cities:
  • Sucre
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• Bolivia

• page on Bolivia Web which shows the coats of arms of eight Bolivian Departments.
  reported by James Dignan, 15 Jan 2004
• Some of these flags for sale at BoliviaMall.COM
  reported by Ivan Sache, 16 Sep 2005

About bolivian departments

Department	Capital city	Area (km2)	Population (1997 estim.)
Beni (El Beni)	Trinidad (de Mojos)	213 564	336 633
Chuquisaca	Sucre (ex-La Plata)	51 524	549 835
Cochabamba	Cochabamba	55 631	1 408 071
La Paz	La Paz (de Ayacucho)	133 985	2 268 824
Oruro	Oruro	53 588	383 498
Pando	Cobija	63 827	53 124
Potosi	Potosi	118 218	746 618
Santa Cruz (de la Sierra)	Santa Cruz (de la Sierra)	370 621	1 951 950
Tarija	Tarija	37 623	368 506

Ivan Sache, 16 Jan 2004

About bolivian departmental flags

The exact ratio of these flags must be 2:3.
Jaume Ollé, 03 Feb 1999

The Czech journal Vexilologie 94 [vex] published a paper concerning flags of the Bolivian departments: the article is authored by W. G. Jilek (South Delta, Canada) and is based on Banderas de los departamentos de Bolivia, La Paz, 1990 [b9o90].
Jan Zrzavy, 01 Sep 1999

These are small scans of documents from Bolivia, both dated 1993, with the diference in two flags (Cochabamba and Pando) Banderas [ban] publish the Jilek version [bol90] in 1992, but later, Carlos Noronha, in a atlas from Bolivia (date unknow), [m2nXX] found the other version.
Jaume Ollé, 05 Sep 1999

Coat of arms added to bolivian departmental flags

The plain flags are frequently depicted with arms, but I see some photos and seems that the arms depiction is very seldom (I believe that is because it’s expensive).
Jaume Ollé, 03 Feb 1999

When I was in La Paz in 2001, I saw the flags of the departments hoisted at Plaza Murillo, in front of the Presidental Palace. No flag of those had a coat of arms, but that doesn’t mean, that there are no flags with coat of arms.
J. Patrick Fischer, 19 Nov 2005

I note that all single-color flags are reported to have variants with the coat of arms on it plus Santa Cruz and Litoral, which are tribands.
António Martins, 22 Nov 2005

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