Hérault (Department, France)

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Flag of Hérault - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 3 July 2022

• Administrative data
• Flag of Hérault
  • Former flag of the Departemental council
  • Flag of the former General council of Hérault
• Municipalities
  • Montpellier
  • Agde
  • Balaruc-le-Vieux
  • Bassan
  • Marseillan
  • Saint-Jean-de-Védas
  • Vendres
  • Vias
• Intermunicipal Authorities
• Departmental Olympic and Sports Committee
• Sports flags
  • Yacht clubs
  • Water jousting in Sète
  • Basket Lattes Montpellier Agglomération

See also:

• France
• France: Metropolitan departments
• Clickable map of France (departments)

Administrative data

Code: 34
Region: Occitanie (Languedoc-Roussillon until 2014)
Traditional provinces: Languedoc
Bordering departments: Aude, Aveyron, Gard, Tarn

Area: 6,101 km²
Population (2016): 1,132,481 inhabitants

Préfecture: Montpellier
Sous-préfectures: Lodève, Béziers
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 25 cantons, 342 municipalities.

The department is named after river Hérault (160 km), a tributary to the Mediterranean Sea.

Ivan Sache, 11 April 2019

Flag of Hérault

Since october 2019, a new version of the flag of Hérault has come into use, with a purple and rectangular frame (while the former green version had the lower edge curvy and parallel to the white central part): photo (2021), photo (2022).

Olivier Touzeau, 3 July 2022

Former flag of Hérault departmental council

Former flag of the Departemental Council of Hérault - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 17 February 2017

The flag [before 2019] of Hérault (photo) was white with the logo designed in 2015 by the communication service of the Departmental Council.
The logo (presentation) retains the blue "H" and the orange sun the former logo, which had been adopted 17 years before, but uses another font, with a different shape of light blue waves in the "H", adds a yellow map of the departement, and a big, green frame.

Olivier Touzeau, 17 February 2017

Flag of the former General council of Hérault

Flag of the former General Council of Hérault - Image by Ivan Sache, 27 September 2009

The flag of the General Council of Hérault, as hoisted in front of the building of the General Council in Montpellier, was white with the logo of the General Council.

The logo of the General Council of Hérault was a white rectangle framed in blue with a thick letter "H" tilted to the upper right corner of the rectangle, blue with the base light blue with two white waves (symbolizing for sure the Mediterranean Sea) and an orange sun concealing the upper left part of the "H". "Département / Hérault / Conseil Général" is written in blue letters under the "H", "Conseil Général" lying under the lower border of the rectangle.

Ivan Sache, 27 September 2009