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Corse (Collectivity, France)

Culletività di Corsica, Collectivité de Corse

Last modified: 2024-11-30 by olivier touzeau
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Flag of Corsica - Image by Pierre Gay, 6 July 2000

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Administrative data

Traditional province: Corse

Area: 8,680 km2
Population (1995): 259,800 inhabitants
Regional prefecture: Ajaccio

The Collectivity of Corsica was established on 1 January 2018 after the merger of the former Territorial Collectivity of Corsica with the Departemental Councils of Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.

Ivan Sache, 1 January 2018

The two departments still exist only as administrative districts for the authority of the French State, and not as local institutions.

Olivier Touzeau, 17 November 2024

Official flag of Corsica

The only flag ever used by the local Corsican institutions is the traditional flag of Corsica.
It was adopted as the regional flag in 1980.

Olivier Touzeau, 17 September 2017

Unconfirmed logo flags of the collectivity of Corsica

The following flags with logos of the collectivity, seen on flagmakers websites, were never used.

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Unconfirmed logo flags of the collectivity of Corsica shown in flagmakers catalogues
Image by Olivier Touzeau, 17 September 2017 & 17 November 2024

When a Region, Corsica used a logo inscribed with "Région de Corse"; in 1991, the new Territorial Collectivity used the same logo with appropriate writing, "Collectivité Territoriale de Corse". In the late 1990s, the logo was changed with stylized maps of Corsica (blue) and continental France (gray), made of lines. A similar logo was used from 2004 to 2012 on a blue field.
A new logo was eventually adopted in 2012, with the Moor’s head and the name of the collectivity in French and in Corsican.

Olivier Touzeau, 17 September 2017

Since 1 January 2018, pursuant to the French law of 7 August 2015, Corsica has been a collectivity with special status within the meaning of Article 72 of the Constitution,  called the "collectivity of Corsica" and established in place of the "territorial collectivity of Corsica" and the departmental councils of Corse-du-Sud and Haute-Corse.  A new logo (image) was adopted.

Olivier Touzeau, 17 November 2024