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Belgie, Belgique, Belgien

Flag adopted 23 January 1831, coat of arms adopted 17 May 1837

Origin of the flag
Colours
The colours of the Belgian flag were taken from the arms of Brabant, a province in the Low Countries (the Netherlands + Belgium), which extended from the Walloon province of Walloon Brabant, over Flemish Brabant (and Brussels) and Antwerpen in Flanders, and in the Netherlands the province of North-Brabant. The arms of Brabant show on a black field a yellow lion facing the viewer's left, with a red tongue and nails were red. The heraldic description (blazon) of these arms is:

Sable a lion rampant or armed and langued gules

The lion of Brabanr features on the arms of the Belgian kingdom and the provincial arms of Walloon Brabant and Flemish Brabant, as well as on the arms of the Dutch province of North-Brabant.

Filip Van Laenen, 29 October 1997

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Proportions
The Belgian flag has odd proportions of 13:15, whose origin remains unknown, as stated by Leon Nyssen (Les drapeaux nouveaux de la Belgique federale, pp. 142-145 in Fahnen, Flags, Drapeaux [icv93]):

"Concerning the odd 13:15 proportions, nobody is able to explain its origin."

Ivan Sache, 29 December 1999

According to information kindly forwarded by Michel Lupant no exact date of issue can be found, but the proportions of 13:15 stem from a XIXth Century directive of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs which gave the official Belgian flag as being 2.60 metres high x 3.00 metres long. Flag in this ratio are, I am advised, occasionally to be seen on important Government buildings such as Parliament, but (as we know) the vast majority (flown by both the Government and civil population) are in 2:3.

Michel also knows of a few instances where 13:15 flags have been ordered and flown by foreign Governments when a Belgian ambassador was presenting his credentials, but he himself only possesses a table model.

Note that the first official drawing with vertical stripes (1831) has proportions 3:4.

Christopher Southworth, 18 August 2003

The 1:1 proportions are fine theoretically, only people in Belgium would be very surprised ('everyone knows the Belgian flag is not a square but a rectangle', they would say). The 13:15 proportions may be the official ones but this fact is largely unknown.

Jan Mertens, 19 August 2003

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