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![[Province flag]](../images/e/es-an-co.gif)
Flag of the Córdoba Province - Image by Jesn Pattke & Ivan Sache, 28 June 2009
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The Córdoba Province (803,038 inhabitants in 2009; 13,550 sq. km) is located in north-central Andalusia.
Ivan Sache, 28 June 2009
The flag and arms of the Córdoba Province, approved on 17 December 2008 by the Provincial Council and submitted on 27 January 2009 to the Directorate General of the Local Administration, are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 4 February 2009 by the Directorate General of the Local Administration and published on 16 February 2009 in the official gazette of Andalusia, No. 31, pp. 62-63 (text).
The symbols are described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular flag, one and a half longer than high, of purple colour. In the middle the provincial coat of arms with proper crown, the size of the shield, from the crown to the base being 1/2 of the hoist and the other dimensions made proportional.
Coat of arms: Argent a lion rampant gules (red). Border compony of the Royal arms of Castile and Leén, the crowns being removed from the lions. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown closed. The shape of the shield shall be Spanish modern, that is oblong and rounded-off in base, of 6 units in height (from top to base) and 5 units in width (from dexter to sinister edges).
Ivan Sache, 28 June 2009
![[Province flag]](../images/e/es-an!co.gif)
Former flag of the Córdoba Province - Image by Jesn Pattke, after Banderas y Escudos de las provincias de España [e9s92], published by the Ministry of Public Administrations, 14 January 2002
According to Manual del Estado Español (text), the "historical flag" of the Córdoba Province is "dark violet with the provincial coat of arms at a distance from the hoist equal to one third of the length of the flag". The "historical coat of arms" of the Córdoba Province is "Argent a lion rampant gules orled by castles or on gules alternating with lions gules on argent, in number not specified. The shield surmounted by a Royal crown with eight florets".
Pascal Vagnat & Santiago Dotor, 26 October 2000