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Puy-de-Dôme (Department, France)

Flag of Puy-de-Dôme - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 26 October 2024

Administrative data
Flag of Puy-de-Dôme
Former flags of the Departmental and General Councils
Municipalities
- Villeneuve-Lembron

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Administrative data

Code: 63
Region: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Auvergne until 2014)
Traditional provinces: Auvergne, Bourbonnais
Bordering departments: Allier, Cantal, Corrèze, Creuse, Loire, Haute-Loire

Area: 7,970 km²Population (2016): 650,700 inhabitants

Préfecture: Clermont-Ferrand
Sous-préfectures: Ambert, Issoire, Riom, Thiers
Subdivisions: 5 arrondissements, 31 cantons, 464 municipalities.

The department is named after the ancient volcano Puy-de-Dôme (1,465 m asl).
When created in 1790, the department should have been called "Mont-Dore", but the proposal was rejected. The Representative Jean-François Gaultier de Blauzat (1739-1815) argued that "Mont-Dore" could be read "Mont-d'Or" (Gold Mountain) and sound too wealthy.

Ivan Sache, 14 April 2019

Flag of Puy-de-Dôme

The department of Puy-de-Dôme adopted a new logo in September 2022 [source: official website]: "This renewal has a dual objective: to modernize a logo created in 1991 and redesigned in 2008 and 2015 when the name was changed ("General Council" to "The Department") and to strengthen our territorial affiliation. This new logo must contribute to strengthening the collective dynamic initiated by the Departmental Councilors with the people of Puy-de-Dôme who, in view of the various developments in the territory, but also of the major societal upheavals, regularly express their shared pride in being from the department. As simple as it is symbolic, this new graphic identity was composed around the emblematic reliefs including the Puy de Dôme (and the Chaîne des Puys - Limagne fault listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site) and anchors the skills of the Departmental Council in the daily lives of all Puy-de-Dôme residents."

A white flag with the new logo can be observed in front of the seat of the Departmental council: photo (2023).

Olivier Touzeau, 26 October 2024

Former flags of the Departmental and General Councils

Former flags of the Departmental and General Councils of Puy-de-Dôme - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 2 May 2019

A white flag with the Council's logo (photo), which was modernized in 2008, has been observed since at least 2010 in front of the seat of the General Council. The logo represents both a leaf and very stylized volcanoes in green and red. It symbolizes the rurality and the eruptive force of the department.

In 2015, General Councils were renamed to Departmental Councils. The Departmental Council modified its logo, replacing the words "Conseil général" by the words "Le Département". The Departmental Council had a white flag with the Council's logo (photo).

Earlier, in 2006, the General Council flew the flag of Auvergne in front of its building (photo).

Olivier Touzeau & Pascal Vagnat, 2 May 2019