Back علم نيومكسيكو Arabic Сцяг Нью-Мексіка Byelorussian Bandera de Nou Mèxic Catalan Baner Mecsico Newydd Welsh New Mexicos flag Danish Flagge New Mexicos German Flago de Nov-Meksiko Esperanto Bandera de Nuevo México Spanish Mexiko Berriko bandera Basque پرچم نیومکزیکو Persian
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| Use | Civil and state flag    |
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| Proportion | 2:3 |
| Adopted | March 15, 1925 |
| Design | The red and gold (yellow) of old Spain. The ancient Zia sun symbol in red on a field of yellow. |
| Designed by | Reba Mera[1][2] |
The flag of the state of New Mexico, also referred to as the New Mexican flag, is a State flag, consisting of a sacred red sun symbol of the Zia tribe on a field of gold (yellow). It was officially adopted in March 15, 1925 to highlight the state's Indigenous and Hispanic heritage: It’s a combination of the symbol of Puebloan people, who have ancient roots in the state, with the colors of the flag of Spain, to symbolize the Spanish empire, which had established and ruled over “Nuevo México” for over two and a half centuries.
The New Mexico flag is among the most unique and iconic in the U.S.,[3] and has been noted for its simple and aesthetically pleasing design.[4] It is one of four U.S. state flags without the color blue (along with Alabama, California, and Maryland) and the only one among the four without the color white.[5][note 1] Along with Oklahoma, New Mexico is the only U.S state that depicts indigenous iconography in its flag.[note 2]
The proportions of the symbol are fixed by New Mexico law: the four groups of rays are set at right angles, with the two inner rays one-fifth longer than the outer rays, and the diameter of the circle in the center is one-third the width of the symbol.[6]
- ^ The Flag Book of the United States by Whitney Smith (1970), p. 174.
- ^ "State Flag". New Mexico Secretary of State. Retrieved August 27, 2022.
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- ^ "List of US state flags and territories". ballotpedia.org. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
- ^ "State Flag | Maggie Toulouse Oliver - New Mexico Secretary of State". Retrieved December 2, 2022.
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