The official Flag of Mayotte is the

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. The Coat of arms of Mayotte is well defined and was adopted by the predecessor entity of the Department of Mayotte in 1982.

Flag

Mayotte Mayotte (; french: Mayotte, ; Shimaore: ''Maore'', ; Kibushi: ''Maori'', ), officially the Department of Mayotte (french: Département de Mayotte), is an overseas department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. It is loc ...

is an

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and

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. The French flag is thus the official flag accordingly to the second article of the

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. A banner is flown by the departmental council, consisting of the department's coat of arms on a white field with the words "DEPARTMENT DE MAYOTTE".

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Mayotte were created by Reunion Archives former director Michel Chabin and drawn by Pascale Santerre. The proposal was adopted by the former General Council of Mayotte on 23 July 1982 and assumed by the new department in 2011. The blue and the red come from the

, with the addition of a yellow shade for the two ylang-ylang flowers. The department's graphic charter gives the following color codes for the coat of arms: The escutcheon, supported by two

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s, reads as follows: ''Per fess azure a crescent argent and gules two ylang-ylang flowers or; within a bordure engrelled argent.'' The coat of arms also displays Mayotte motto, ''Ra Hachiri'', translated from

Shimaore Maore Comorian, or ''Shimaore'' ( French ''Mahorais''), is one of the two indigenous languages spoken in the French-ruled Comorian islands of Mayotte; Shimaore being a dialect of the Comorian language, while ShiBushi is an unrelated Malayo-P ...

as "We are vigilant". Finally, the whole is enframed at the top by ''Département'' and at the bottom by ''de Mayotte'', with ''de'' written vertically. The

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used is Barmeno Bold. In addition to the main version, colored, there are also two others: one in shades of grey and the other in black and white, to be used if technical constraints arose. The graphical charter imposes a 100% black and 100% white shades for the latter and the following color codes for the former:

Seal

The

Departmental Council of Mayotte The Departmental Council of Mayotte (french: Conseil départemental de Mayotte) is the local authority overseeing the Department of Mayotte. The legislative branch is composed of the council itself acting as a deliberative assembly, while the ex ...

uses a seal based on the Great Seal of France. Seal of Mayotte.svg, Seal of the Departmental Council of Mayotte

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Seal

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