Mexico - Subnational flags

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Mexico - Subnational flags

Last modified: 2005-12-17 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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The states and the federal district

Flag Official	Flag De facto or alternate version	Coat of arms	Name	2-letter code (RENAPO) 1	3-LETTER CODE (iso 3166-2) 2	Conventional code 3	Administrative division 4	Statehood 5	Capital	Capital's flag
			Aguascalientes	AS	AGU	AGS	11	5 February 1857	Aguascalientes	n. a.
			Baja California	BC	BCN	BC	5	16 January 1952	Mexicali	n. a.
			Baja California Sur	BS	BCS	BCS	5	8 october 1974	La Paz	n. a.
			Campeche	CC	CAM	CAMP	11	29 April 1863	San Francisco de Campeche
			Chiapas	CS	CHP	CHIS	122	14 September 1824	Tuxtla Gutiérrez	n. a.
			Chihuahua	CH	CHH	CHIH	67	6 July 1824	Chihuahua
			Coahuila de Zaragoza	CL	COA	COAH	38	7 May 1824	Saltillo	n. a.
			Colima	CM	COL	COL	10	12 September 1856	Colima	n. a.
			Durango	DG	DUR	DGO	39	22 May 1824	Victoria de Durango	n. a.
			Guanajuato	GT	GUA	GTO	46	20 December 1823	Guanajuato	n. a.
			Guerrero	GR	GRO	GRO	81	27 October 1849	Chilpancingo de los Bravo	n. a.
			Hidalgo	HG	HID	HGO	84	16 January 1869	Pachuca	n. a.
			Jalisco	JC	JAL	JAL	125	23 December 1823	Guadalajara
			México	MC	MEX	MÉX	125	20 December 1823	Toluca
			Mexico City (Country's capital city)	CX	CMX	CX	16 (Delegaciones políticas)	18 November 1824	Mexico City
			Michoacán de Ocampo	MN	MIC	MICH	113	22 December 1823	Morelia
			Morelos	MS	MOR	MOR	33	17 April 1869	Cuernavaca	n. a.
			Nayarit	NT	NAY	NAY	20	26 January 1917	Tepic	n. a.
			Nuevo Leon	NL	NLE	NL	51	7 May 1824	Monterrey
			Oaxaca	OC	OAX	OAX	570	21 December 1823	Oaxaca de Juárez	n. a.
			Puebla	PL	PUE	PUE	217	21 December 1823	Puebla de Zaragoza	n. a.
			Querétaro	QT	QUE	QRO	18	23 December 1823	Santiago de Querétaro	n. a.
			Quintana Roo	QR	ROO	QROO	10	8 October 1974	Chetumal	n. a.
			San Luis Potosí	SP	SLP	SLP	58	22 December 1823	San Luis Potosí
			Sinaloa	SL	SIN	SIN	18	14 October 1830	Culiacán	n. a.
			Sonora	SR	SON	SON	72	10 January 1824	Hermosillo
			Tabasco	TC	TAB	TAB	17	7 February 1824	Villahermosa	n. a.
			Tamaulipas	TS	TAM	TAMPS	43	7 February 1824	Ciudad Victoria	n. a.
			Tlaxcala	TL	TLA	TLAX	60	9 December 1856	Tlaxcala	n. a.
			Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave	VZ	VER	VER	212	22 December 1823	Xalapa	n. a.
			Yucatán	YN	YUC	YUC	106	22 December 1823	Mérida
			Zacatecas	ZS	ZAC	ZAC	58	23 December 1823	Zacatecas	n. a.

White-field state flags

Thirty-two 4:7 ratio-white flags charged with the state's coat of arms are hoisted at the President's house called Los Pinos in Mexico City. These flags are flown during inter-government meetings and national sports events such as the National Olympics [Olimpiada Nacional]. By some reason, those of Jalisco, Puebla, and Yucatan, feature their respective capitals' coat of arms. In addition to that, most of the shields are odd depictions of the original ones.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 6 May 2001

Though some states have already adopted a distinctive flag, white flags with coat of arms are still used in federal organized events to represent each state.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 23 January 2014

Souvernir flags

National flag with state's name

There's a significant Mexican population in this part of the U.S., and I occasionally see automobiles with bumper stickers consisting of the Mexican (national) flag and the name of a state ("Coahuila", "Chihuahua", etc.), presumably indicating the driver's loyalty or nostalgia for his home state. None of these stickers ever displays a flag other than the national flag.
Bruce Tindall, 22 Jan 1997

Mexican tricolor with state's coat of arms

by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, May 06, 2001.

Another report refers that these very same state coats of arms are used in the central panel of a Mexican tricolor, mainly for tourist purposes (some reports refer it’s exogenous usage, especially in border line US locations).
António Martins, 22 Jun 1999

Cites and municipalities

Flag Official or de facto	Coat of arms badge, emblem or logo	Name	State	Note
	Image comming soon	San Francisco de Campeche	CC	1
		Chihuahua	CH	1
Image comming soon	Image comming soon	Irapuato	GT
		León	GT	2
	Image comming soon	Autlán de Navarro	JC	1
		Guadalajara	JC	1
		Tlaquepaque	JC	1
	Image comming soon	Tonaya	JC	1
		Zapopan	JC	1
Image comming soon	Image comming soon	Tequixquiac	MC
		Morelia	MN	1
		Monterrey	NL	1
Image comming soon	Image comming soon	Santiago Matatlán	OC
		San Luis Potosí	SP	1
		Hermosillo	SR	3
		San Luis Rio Colorado	SR	1
		Veracruz	VZ	1
		Merida	YN	1

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3. Flag by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán. Coat of arms by Municipio de Hermosillo

As for 2013, Mexico is divided into 31 states and 1 federal district, in turn, they counts 2461 administrative divisions of second level (2445 municipalities and 16 delegaciones políticas), out of which few of them have a flag of their own, though all of them have a coat of arms, badge or seal. None of the Distrito Federal's 16 "delegations" has a distinctive flag. After the states, some municipalities employ a white background charged with the corresponding coat of arms in the center of the field. It is unknown the exact number of municipalities have adopted a distinctive flag.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 28 July 2013

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Ethnic groups

Flag		Name		Local name
		Mixe		Ayuukjä'äy
		Purépecha		P'urhépecha
		Yaqui		Hiaki or Yoeme

Without any proves, Wikipedia reports supposed flags for the following ethnic groups: criollo, nahua and otomí. Besides, the flag supposedly flown by the Pápago people is actually that of the Papago people in the United States, where they are known as the Tohono O'odham Nation. Meanwhile the Pápagos in Mexico have not reported any flag for their own so far.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 3 May 2014.

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