{"id":1606,"date":"2021-01-04T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T14:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flags-world.com\/en\/flag-of-martinique\/"},"modified":"2021-09-21T22:07:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T19:07:52","slug":"flag-of-martinique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flags-world.com\/en\/flag-of-martinique\/","title":{"rendered":"Flag of Martinique: meaning and picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Martinique &#8211; Caribbean Peninsula, from a long time belonging to France, was able to preserve a feature &#8211; his informal flag is considered one of the most inimitable in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So the modern flag of Martinique looks:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span itemprop=\"image\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img itemprop=\"url image\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3668\" src=\"https:\/\/flags-world.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/flag-martiniki-1.png\" alt=\"Martinique flag-1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1024\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"682\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">History flag of Martinique<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official flag of Martinique, one of the overseas territories of France, located in the Caribbean, is the <a href=\"https:\/\/flags-world.com\/en\/flag-of-france\/\">French Tricolor<\/a>. But not he, but another sign of the country, considered historical. He was adopted in the 2nd half of the 60s of the XVIII century. Like a marine Vympel of countries.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From 1664 peninsula has a colony, and since 1946 has the status of the France&#8217;s overseas department.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Description<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a cross on a monophonic background that crushes the background to four equal parts, in each of which a snake is located, which resembles a beak.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Colors of flag of Martinique<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blue and white.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meaning colors of the flag of Martinique<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reason for the introduction of colors is not exactly clear, based on this, they should be interpreted, based on the basic laws of Heraldry.<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Blue &#8211; love for dedication, devotion, and greatness, and a symbol of huge water, in which territory is.<\/li>\n<li>White &#8211; clean and nobility.<\/li>\n<li>Letter L &#8211; from the title of Saint Lucia &#8211; from this island until 1803 was managed by Martinique.<\/li>\n<li>Residents are confident that snakes &#8211; the image of the rattles of snakes inhabiting these parts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The symbol made by a couple of centuries ago, unlike others, than and attractive for many connoisseurs and connoisseurs Venxillology &#8211; sciences about flags.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Non-specialized information about Martinique<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<td>Official language<\/td>\n<td>French (official), proud-spoken language based on French and African languages \u200b\u200bwith borrowings from English, Spanish and Portuguese.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<td>Capital<\/td>\n<td>FOR-DE FRANS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<td>Territory<\/td>\n<td>1128 km2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<td>Population<\/td>\n<td>392 291 people<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<td>Currency<\/td>\n<td>Euro<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\">Telephone code<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\">596<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martinique &#8211; Caribbean Peninsula, from a long time belonging to France, was able to preserve a feature &#8211; his informal flag is considered one of the most inimitable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-flags-of-north-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flags-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flags-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flags-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5669,"href":"https:\/\/flags-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/5669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flags-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flags-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flags-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}