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Flag of the state of Montana, United States
Montana
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Use
| Civil
and
state flag
![Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/FIAV_110000.svg/23px-FIAV_110000.svg.png) ![Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/FIAV_normal.svg/23px-FIAV_normal.svg.png) ![Reverse side is mirror image of obverse side](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/IFIS_Mirror.svg/21px-IFIS_Mirror.svg.png) |
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Proportion
| 2:3
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Adopted
| July 1, 1981
; 42 years ago
(
1981-07-01
)
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Design
| The Great Seal of the State of Montana on a blue field. Above the seal the text “MONTANA” in yellow.
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Former state flag of Montana (1905?1981)
The
flag
of the
state of Montana
consists of the image of the
Montana state seal
centered on a blue field.
History
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Within the seal, a plow, shovel, and pick rest in a field in front of the
Great Falls of the Missouri River
. The ribbon contains the state motto,
ORO Y PLATA
, which is
Spanish
for “gold and silver". The current flag was adopted in 1905, and the word “MONTANA” above the seal was added in 1981. In 1985, the flag was again modified to specify the font used in “MONTANA”:
Helvetica Bold
.
[1]
[2]
Before it was adopted as a state flag, it was used by Montana troops deploying for the
Spanish?American War
.
[3]
a Short Lived Flag flown in December, 1943
The
North American Vexillological Association
(NAVA) declared the flag of Montana to be the third worst state/provincial flag, 70th in a field of 72 in a list that contained all the
provinces of Canada
,
U.S. states
and
U.S. territories
.
Georgia's flag
was named the worst, but has since been changed, and
Nebraska's flag
was named second worst.
[4]
NAVA stated that about half of U.S. states used blue fields making them difficult to distinguish and the survey ranked flags with words and complex seals the lowest.
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