Lipetsk Region (Russia)

Lipeckaa^ oblasth

Last modified: 2003-01-25 by antonio martins
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• Presentation of Lipetsk Region
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• No flag until (at least) 2000.02.16
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Presentation of Lipetsk Region

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• Name (english): Lipetsk Region • (russian): Липецкая область | Lipeckaâ oblasth
  
• Capital (russian): Липецк | Lipeck • (english): Lipetsk
• Area: 24 100 km² (≅9 300 sq.mi.) • Population: 1 235 000 inhabitants in 2000
• Status: Region (область | oblasth) within the Russian Federation
• Federal District: Central Region • Economic region: Center Ĉernozem | Чернозем (south central European Russia)
• License plate code: 48 • Ham radio code: LP • ISO 3166-2 code: LIP
• Flag not adopted yet • Coat of arms not adopted yet

About the flag

Some days ago I reported the flag of Lipetsk oblast in Vexillum list. Unluckley image I have is small and the details of the coa can be readables.
Jaume Oll�, 17 Nov 2002

No flag until (at least) 2000.02.16

Lipetsk oblast don't have own flag.
Igor Lizunov, 22 Dec 1998

Lipetsk region has neither flag nor coat of arms.
48a00024@lipadm.lipetsk.ru, 16 Feb 2000

Lipyetsk city
(Lipeck | Липецк, a county-status city)

This seems to be the flag of Lipetsk city; Lipetsk oblast has not adopted a flag for the moment.
Pascal Gross, 12 Nov 2000

The tree on the flag of Lipetsk (and on the coat of arms, too) is a lime-tree ("lipa" in russian), these are �canting arms�.
Victor Lomantsov, 13 Nov 2000