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image by Daniel Rentería,
12 October 2025
Photo from
https://presidency.gov.krd/uploads/files/1727172660105.jpeg
The flag
started to be used sometime in the year 2023 (or very last months of 2022). It
depicts a blue-and-white version of the UNESCO logo, reading underneath "unesco"
and "Member of Creative Cities Network". To the right, the Slemani governorate
logo is depicted with the text Designated UNESCO Creative City in 2019
underneath.
It should absolutely be noted that this flag (and the
previous flag) are used by the governorate in reality, not the Municipality even
though it is the one recognized as a creative city.
Daniel Rentería,
12 October 2025
image located by Daniel Rentería,
12 October 2025
based on photo
Image from
https://pukmedia.com/EN/Details/71739
This flag was adopted sometime in
2020 and remained in use until around the end of 2022. It depicts, on a white
field, a merger of the UNESCO logo in black (including its full name in Arial
underneath) and Slemani governorate logos (with the text Designated UNESCO
Creative City in 2019 underneath). Both logos are divided by black dots.
Daniel Rentería,
12 October 2025
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image by Daniel Rentería,11
October 2025This logo appears to have been adopted sometime in 2020, considering it was
recognized fairly late as such on 31 October 2019. Before that, no governorate
logo appears to have existed besides a website logo; as such, it does appear
there were no previous flags. The logo reads "SLEMANI 1784 2019" with a bar
dividing the title of "UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE" underneath. Above this text, a
circular-format logo is found with an embroidered rug pattern for culture and a
white road pattern on top of it. The logo is outlined in white, gray, white,
then black. The year 1784 is of the city's foundation by the Ottomans and named
after Suleiman Pasha (the father of its founder); 2019 is its 235th anniversary
year and when it became a Creative City on 31 October 2019.
Daniel Rentería,11
October 2025
A photo was found at
https://shafaq.com/en/kurdistan?page=881, but no logo found online, so it
remains undrawn.
Daniel Rentería,11
October 2025
![[Al-Turath University]](../images/i/iq-sulay.gif)
image by Daniel Rentería, 12 October 2025
based on photo
The flag of the Municipality is white with the logo centered upon it.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=806853311718947
Daniel Rentería, 12 October 2025
![[Al-Turath University]](../images/i/iq-sulay).gif)
image by Daniel Rentería, 12 October 2025
Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=313384477485297
The logo depicts a white outer ring outlined entirely in green. There is text
to the upper-left that reads "SLEMANI MUNICIPALITY" and text to the upper-right
reading the same in Arabic. At the bottom is "3/2/2000", probably indicating the
date of municipalization as 3 February 2000. In the center is a bright green
field, depicting over it a deer indicating its fauna.
Daniel Rentería, 12 October 2025
