Kyoto City (Kyōto Prefecture, Japan)

京都市

Last modified: 2014-06-28 by zoltán horváth
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image by Kazutaka Nishiura 22 October 2009

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• Keihoku

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City Flag

The city emblem was adopted on Jan 1st 1960 by the Notice No 306 but no flag law.
The white flag is charged with gold and dull purple city emblem in the center.
The flag proportion 2:3.
The city emblem is composed of stylized kanji 京 KYO and an ancient style court carriage in gold and dull purple representing ancient capital of Japan.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 October 2009

Keihoku Town / 京北町

image by Tomislav Šipek, 30 January 2014

The flag of the former town of Keihoku was green with mark. The town is now, from 2005, part of the city of Kyoto.
Source: http://www.kyoto-np.co.jp/kp/2005topics/kyoto_back.html
Tomislav Šipek, 30 January 2014