Skellefteå (Sweden)

Last modified: 2021-08-25 by christopher oehler
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image by Olivier Touzeau, 25 December 2010

• About the flag
  • Blazon
• Reported Flag Variant
• Coat of Arms

See also:

• County of West Bothnia, where Skellefteå is situated
• Municipal flags (Sweden)
• Sweden

About the flag

Odd Andreas Sørgård reported the flag of Skellefteå at the Scanidinavian heraldic discussion board Heraldica. The flag is a banner of the arms.
Elias Granqvist, 23 December 2010

Using the image at http://www.skelleftea.se/logotyper, I made this image of the flag of Skellefteå.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 December 2010

The partition should be wavy, but apart from this the image is very good.
Elias Granqvist, 28 December 2010

Blazon

Official blazon in Swedish: "I blått fält en gyllene sol och däröver en genom vågskura bildad gyllene ginstam belagd med en blå antik blixt."
Blazoned in English: not translated for FOTW yet.

Reported Flag Variant

image by Jens Pattke, 24 October 2015

In a TV-report on Eritrean refugees in Sweden has shown the town hall of Skelleftea. Above the town hall blew this square yellow blue flag.
Jens Pattke, 24 October 2015

Coat of Arms

image by Jens Pattke, 24 October 2015