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Flag of Haute-Saône - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 15 May 2019
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Code: 70
Region: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (Franche-Comté until 2014)
Traditional province:
Franche-Comté
Bordering departments:
Côte-d'Or,
Doubs, Jura,
Haute-Marne,
Vosges, Territoire de
Belfort
Area: 5,360 km2
Population (2016): 237,242 inhabitants
Préfecture: Vesoul
Sous-préfecture: Lure
Subdivisions: 2 arrondissements, 17 cantons, 542 municipalities.
The department is named after river Saône (480
km), a tributary to the Rhône.
On 1 July 1974, the municipality of Frettes (Haute-Marne) was incorporated to the municipality of Champlitte (Haute-Saône).
Ivan Sache, 14 April 2019
The flag of the Departmental Council (photo) is white with the Council's logo.
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".
Olivier Touzeau, 15 May 2019
Flag of the former General Council of Haute-Saône - Image by Ivan Sache, 16 November 2009
The flag of the former General Council of Haute-Saône, as seen in 2007, was white with the Council's logo.
The logo is made of four arrows, two blue and two green, two plain and two striped, forming a square, of a yellow curved stripe and of the writings "haute / saône" (blue) and "CONSEIL GENERAL" (green).
Pascal Vagnat & Ivan Sache, 16 November 2009