Eure (Department, France)

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Flag of Eure - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 10 March 2019

• Administrative data
• Flag of Eure
  • Paper flags
• Flag of the former General Council
• Municipalities

  Évreux Bernay Breteuil-sur-Iton Brionne Conches-en-Ouche Gasny Gisors Ivry-la-Bataille Louviers Manneville-sur-Risle

  Mesnils-sur-Iton Le Neubourg Pont-Audemer Pont-de-l'Arche Sacquenville Saint-Aubin-sur-Gaillon Saint-Marcel Val-de-Reuil Vernon Vexin-sur-Epte

• Intermunicipal Authorities

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• France
• France: Metropolitan departments
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Administrative data

Code: 27
Region: Normandie (Haute-Normandie until 2014)
Traditional province: Normandy
Bordering departments: Calvados, Eure-et-Loir, Oise, Orne, Seine-Maritime, Yvelines, Val-d'Oise

Area: 6,040 km²
Population (2016): 602,825 inhabitants

Préfecture: Évreux
Sous-préfectures: Les Andelys, Bernay
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 23 cantons, 596 municipalities.

The department is named after river Eure (225 km), a tributary to the Seine.

Ivan Sache, 11 April 2019

Flag of Eure

A dark blue flag was edited (photo), featuring the logo modified in 2016 with the adding of the words "en Normandie".

Olivier Touzeau, 10 March 2019

Paper flags

Paper flags of Eure - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 10 March 2019

In special events, paper flags with monochrome logos on colored field are produced by the Departmental Council, for example;
- white logo on pink for an event about sustainable and local agriculture in 2019 (with on the reverse the department number "27" in a white circle) (photo, photo);
- black logo on yellow for Tour de de France 2018 (photo).

Olivier Touzeau, 10 March 2019

Flag of the former General Council

Flag of the former General Council of Eure - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 6 March 2019

The General Council used a white flag with the logo adopted in 2001.

Olivier Touzeau, 6 March 2019

Older flags of the former General Council of Eure - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 6 March 2019

Bedfore 2001, the General Council used a white flag with the logo of the time. Lucien Philippe's archives record the Graphical Charter of the departement (1991), which prescribed theflag with a blue stripe at the fly and the words "VOUS C'EST NOUS" (Yourself are Ourself) in green letters, and the logo on the 2/3 white part of the hoist.

Pascal Vagnat, 9 July 2012