Loiret (Department, France)

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Flag of Loiret - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 17 April 2019

• Administrative data
• Flag of Loiret
• Flags of the former General Council
• Banner of arms of Loiret
• Municipalities

  Orléans Beaugency Beaune-la-Rolande Châteauneuf-sur-Loire Château-Renard Châtillon-sur-Loire La Ferté-Saint-Aubin Fleury-les-Aubrais Jargeau

  Meung-sur-Loire Montargis Olivet Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire Saint-Cyr-en-Val Saint-Jean-de-Braye Saint-Jean-le-Blanc Sully-sur-Loire

• Intermunicipal authorities
• Yacht clubs

See also:

• France
• France: Metropolitan departments
• Clickable map of France (departments)

Administrative data

Code: 45
Region: Centre-Val de Loire
Traditional provinces: Orléanais, Berry, Île-de-France
Bordering departments: Cher, Eure-et-Loir, Loir-et-Cher, Nièvre, Seine-et-Marne, Yonne, Essonne

Area: 6,775 km²
Population (2016): 674,330 inhabitants

Préfecture: Orléans
Sous-préfectures: Montargis, Pithiviers
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 21 cantons, 325 municipalities.

The department is named after river Loiret (12 km; lit. "Little Loire"), formed by inflitration of water from the Loire.

Ivan Sache, 12 November 2009

Flag of Loiret

The Departmental Council flies a blue flag (photo) with the logo adopted in 2014 by the former General Council and kept in use after 2015 by the Departmental Council, featuring the same stylized fleur-de-lys as the ormer logo and the writing “Loiret votre département” (Loiret your department)/

Color specifications are given as (graphical charter):

        Pantone        CMYK        RAL
Blue	 287 c    100 70   0 20   5002
Yellow	 143 c      0 33 100  0   1033

Olivier Touzeau & Ivan Sache, 18 April 2019

Flag of the former General Council

Flags of the former General Council of Loiret - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 17 April 2019

In Orléans, yhe former General Council used two flags (photo):
- a blue flag with the emblem of the department, a stylized yellow fleur-de-lis, recalling the traditional arms of the Duchy of Orléans (Orléanais) surmounting the writing "le Loiret" in white and two white waves, representing the Loire;
- a yellow flag charged in the center with a square version of the aforementioned flag, and, below, the writing "Conseil Général", in blue.

Pascal Vagnat, 13 June 2010

Flag of the former General Council of Loiret - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 10 November 2020

The flag of the General Council hoisted in front of the Town Hall of Fleury-les-Aubrais between 2011 and 2015 (photo) was white with the logo of the General Council used at the time.

Former flag of the General Council of Loiret - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 17 April 2019

Before 1997, the General Council used a white flag with the logo of the time.

Banner of arms of Loiret

Banner of arms of Loiret - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 17 April 2019

A white flag charged with the department's greater arms was seen in August 2018 inside the General Council's building.

Pascal Vagnat, 13 June 2010

The coat of arms of Loiret was assigned by Jacques Meurgey de Tupigny & Robert Louis in Marques symboliques des départements français as "Azure a fess wavy argent surrounded by three fleurs-de-lis or placed 2 an 1 in chief a label argent".
The three departments set up from the province of Orléanais are represented by the provincial arms ("Azure three fleurs-de-lis placed 2 and 1 in chief a label argent"), each with a distinctive charge. Here the fess wavy represents river Loire, which crosses the department from east to west.

Ivan Sache, 18 April 2019