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T'ai-nan, Taiwan

Táinán, 台南市

Last modified: 2015-03-14 by zoltán horváth
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Tai-nan flag
image by Zoltan Horvath, 01 March 2015


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Current Flags

Tainan city flag already reported, but it seems this city changed its symbols at least twice during past months.
The newest (current) flag can be seen here (page 35) It was adopted on 23 December 2014. This flag has two variants based on colours and elements of new city emblem.
Zoltan Horvath, 01 March 2015


Other Proposal

Tai-nan flag
image by Zoltan Horvath, 01 March 2015

The two flags you cited were the proposals of Tainan City flag announced on Dec 23, 2014 by the authorities.
On Jan 28, 2015, the city government decided its new flag (to see page 40 in this document) on the official website.
Akira Oyo, 07 March 2015


Flag used in sport events

An other previous flag seen on this photo taken on 12 August 2014 during a baseball championship in Arizona where Tainan participants were also involved. It is a white flag with a flower emblem together with city red-contoured Chinese and English name.
image 1 and image 2
Adoption date of this date is unknown.
Zoltan Horvath, 01 March 2015

Another flag, showed in photos took in 2014 during a baseball championship in Arizona, was applied by Physical Educational Office of Education Bureau for the sports activities.
Akira Oyo, 07 March 2015


New Logo

Tai-nan logo

Actually, the city's new logo was adopted on Dec 23, 2014.
Akira Oyo, 07 March 2015


Previous Flags and Logo

Flag used before 2012

Tai-nan flag
image by Tai Yu-liang, 16 April 2014

Tai-nan logo
image by Tai Yu-liang, 16 April 2014

The Logo consists in the petals of Flamboyant (Delonix regia), the City Flower, and there is orange borderlines around the red petals. In the center, there is an white image combined with the city name in Chinese characters, "台南市", and an orange antique wall is in the middle. All of them are surrounded by a marine blue Plum Blossom. The Plum Blossom is integrated into the City Flag.
Source: http://www.tainan.gov.tw/tainan/warehouse/G10000/tainanlogo.zip.
Akira Oyo, 16 April 2014

The former city logo was 1978 – Dec 22, 2014, but the former flag was 1978 – Dec 25, 2010. Since Dec 25, 2010 to Jan 28, 2015, the city flag has been suspended officially, and the former has been unofficially considered as the city flag.
Akira Oyo, 07 March 2015


Previously Reported City Logo

Tai-nan logo
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 December 2006

Three slightly different designs are found on the web, all based on the city logo. This shows a five-petal flower outline with deep indentations and sepals between each, all red, and on it a white very stylized letter "南" ("nán") on (or in) some kind of blue bowl outlined in white both in a red contour area, all this on a blue background area also shaped as a five-petal flower.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 December 2006


Previously Reported Flag renditions

Globalflag rendition

Tai-nan
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 December 2006

At Globalflag, a dark blue flag with a slightly different representation of the logo: thicker bowl outline, letter and bowl directly on the flower and queer gaps in the flower shape showing through the letter.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 December 2006


Edward-Lee.com rendition

Tai-nan
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 December 2006

An identical design is shown but with light pruple instead of blue at Edward-Lee.com (this presenting slightly different designs on the flag and as the logo) and (perhaps as its source) at vexilla-mundi.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 December 2006


Wikipedia rendition

Tai-nan
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 December 2006

Wikipedia presents the logo unchanged on a medium blue background as the city flag.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 December 2006