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Boninal, Bahia (Brazil)

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Boninal, BA (Brazil) image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 September 2025


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Quatered diagonally by a white saltire, blue and green in top and bottom, yellow in hoist and fly, with a logo of a white diamond gem on a centered pink disk.

Links:
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boninal
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHwLnVsxryS/?img_index=1
https://www.mbi.com.br/mbi/loja/brasil-regiao-nordeste/bandeira

Valentin Poposki, 20 September 2025

On this photo we can see the flag hoisted indoors along the national and state flags; it was attached upside-down to the pole and the disk is pink/magenta. While the former is a mishap, the pink disk (as opposed to a red disk) suggests that the images in Commons were mistakenly copied from the undisclosed official source given as Site da Prefeitura de Boninal, but no link. With that in mind, the image above uses RGB:FF0099 for the central disk.

This flag shows a white gem (rosecut diamond seen in profile) with black hairlines, set on a pink/magenta/purple central disk, superimposed on a thin white saltire, itself set on a background divided saltirewise with yellow at the fly and hoist plus blue at the top and green at the bottom. The diamond seems to refer to local history, guessing from what is mentioned in the Portuguese Wikipedia article, linked by Vanja. Still according to the Portuguese Wikipedia article, the current town name was chosen in 1943-1944, more than ten years after the end of the diamond mining cycle, in 1931.

The word "boninal" means "daisy field" and therefore the flag is not canting, regardless of whether one assumes the bonina in question to be Bellis perennis (the daisy, European style), or Mirabilis jalapa (the four o clock flower), as is more likely in Brazil. Indeed, eight of the latter species are featured on a current official municipal logo: https://www.boninal.ba.gov.br

António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 September 2025