# Best City Flags?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-city-flags/574186>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 10, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-city-flags/574186 "2011-03-10T15:51:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-city-flags/574186/1 "2011-03-10T15:51:06Z")

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I really admire [Chicago’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Chicago). I’d like to get it as a patch. What other cities have great flags?

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**Author:** ![Sakuma\_Drops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sakuma\_Drops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sakuma_Drops)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-city-flags/574186/2 "2011-03-10T17:14:50Z")

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Does the flag of the [Conch Republic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conch_republic) count? I like that one 🙂

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-city-flags/574186/3 "2011-03-10T18:14:13Z")

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I like [DC’s flag](http://library.educationworld.net/statefacts/flags/dc_flag_l.gif). Similar to Chicago’s.

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**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-city-flags/574186/4 "2011-03-10T18:18:37Z")

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I rather like San Francisco’s. Can’t draw it, but it incorporates several themes quite well (1906 earthquake, Gold Rush history).

> **[Flag of San Francisco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_San_Francisco,_California)**
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> The Flag of the City and County of San Francisco is the municipal flag of San Francisco, California. The flag's central symbol, a rising phoenix, often is assumed to refer to the city's recovery from the 1906 earthquake and subsequent fires. However, the phoenix had been a civic symbol of San Francisco at least since 1852, when it featured on the first official seal of the city. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco codified the design of the current flag on December 16...

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-city-flags/574186/5 "2011-03-10T18:24:19Z")

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[Indianapolis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Indianapolis). Helps to know that it’s the “Circle City”.