Flag of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Flag of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia

The Jewish Autonomous Oblast is situated in the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia.

Its flag consists of a rainbow on a white background, with seven narrow horizontal colored stripes: red, orange, yellow, green, sky blue, blue and purple. The number of colors is meant to symbolize the seven-branched Jewish Menorah. The flag's aspect ratio is 2:3.

The seven colored stripes are centered vertically and regularly spaced; they have a height each equal to ¹⁄₄₀ of the total flag's height, and are separated by a thin spacing equal to ¹⁄₁₂₀ of the total flag's height.^[1]

The rainbow flag design was adopted during October 1996.^[2]

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External links

http://www.eao.ru/eng/ – Official State site
Jewish Autonomous State Symbols
Flags of the World – Description

Flags of Russian regions

Republics	Adygea Altai Bashkortostan Buryatia Chechnya Chuvashia Crimea¹ Dagestan Ingushetia Kabardino-Balkaria Kalmykia Karachay–Cherkessia Karelia Khakassia Komi Mari El Mordovia North Ossetia–Alania Sakha Tatarstan Tuva Udmurtia

Krais	Altai Kamchatka Khabarovsk Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk Perm Primorsky Stavropol Zabaykalsky

Oblasts	Amur Arkhangelsk Astrakhan Belgorod Bryansk Chelyabinsk Irkutsk Ivanovo Kaliningrad Kaluga Kemerovo Kirov Kostroma Kurgan Kursk Leningrad Lipetsk Magadan Moscow Murmansk Nizhny Novgorod Novgorod Novosibirsk Omsk Orenburg Oryol Penza Pskov Rostov Ryazan Sakhalin Samara Saratov Smolensk Sverdlovsk Tambov Tomsk Tula Tver Tyumen Ulyanovsk Vladimir Volgograd Vologda Voronezh Yaroslavl

Federal cities	Moscow St. Petersburg Sevastopol¹

Autonomous oblasts	Jewish

Autonomous okrugs	Chukotka Khanty-Mansi Nenets Yamalo-Nenets

¹ Internationally recognized as part of Ukraine.

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Flag of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast

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