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The flag of Cape Town is the flag used by the City of Cape Town municipality. It is not an officially registered flag, but consists of the city's logo used in flag form, and since 1996 it has changed each time the city's logo has changed.
The city's current logo was adopted in 2014 and is used on the city's flag. It consists of a rosette of four concentric rings, each made up of six silhouettes of Table Mountain.
From about 2003 until 2004, the logo consisted of a white outline of Table Mountain on a rainbow brush stroke background.
From 1996 until around 2003, the flag featured a silhouette of Table Mountain. It was created by a
File:Flag of Cape Town (until 1997).gif, Flag used until 1997
File:Flag of Cape Town (1997-2003).svg, Flag used from 1997 to 2003
File:Flag of Cape Town (2003–2004).svg, Flag used from 2003 to 2004
Flag of None.svg, Flag used from 2004 to 2014
File:Flag of Cape Town, South Africa.svg, Flag used since 2014
The flag of Cape Town is the flag used by the City of Cape Town municipality. It is not an officially registered flag, but consists of the city's logo used in flag form, and since 1996 it has changed each time the city's logo has changed.
The city's current logo was adopted in 2014 and is used on the city's flag. It consists of a rosette of four concentric rings, each made up of six silhouettes of Table Mountain.
From about 2003 until 2004, the logo consisted of a white outline of Table Mountain on a rainbow brush stroke background.
From 1996 until around 2003, the flag featured a silhouette of Table Mountain. It was created by a graphic designer
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, ...
and was not registered with the South African Bureau of Heraldry. The design consisted of a stylised image of Table Mountain (and neighbouring peaks Devil's Peak and Lion's Head) in white on a background of blue in the top left section and green in the top right section. Below the Table Mountain image is a yellow "paint brush" horizontal stripe under which is a red section at the bottom of the flag.
Before 1996, the flag consisted of the coat of arms of Cape Town
The coat of arms of Cape Town is the traditional symbol of the municipality of Cape Town. The original arms from the 20th century are no longer in official use, though no new arms have yet been adopted.
History
The original seal, depicting the a ...
on a blue field.
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A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular or quadrilateral) with a distinctive design and colours. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. The term ''flag'' is also used to refer to the graphic design empl ...
Flags introduced in 2014
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