City of Birmingham

Use	Civil
Adopted	23 July 2015
Design	Golden vertical zig-zag offset to hoist dividing blue and red, with a bull's head in the centre.
Designed by	Thomas Keogh David Smith

Theflag of Birmingham is the flag of the city ofBirmingham inEngland. A flag for the city that is freely flyable by the community was adopted following a public competition in 2015.^[1] It is distinct from the flag flown exclusively byBirmingham City Council which is abanner of arms derived fromthe city's coat of arms. A competition to design a new flag for public use was held during early 2015 with 470 proposed designs being entered into the competition.

The successful entry was announced on 23 July 2015 and was designed by 11 year old Thomas Keogh and David Smith. It takes the form of a yellow bull's head, recalling Birmingham'sBull Ring, placed on a red field with an abstract yellow letter "B" on blue (the blue representing the city's expansive canal network) at the hoist which, when placed on its side, forms theRoman numeral "M" (1000) representingBirmingham's epithet "City of a Thousand Trades".^[2] The colour and design of the flag echo those of the coat of arms.

• Flags introduced in 2015
• Flags of cities in the United Kingdom
• Flags of places in England
• Culture in Birmingham, West Midlands
• History of Birmingham, West Midlands
• Flags displaying animals
• Flags with blue, red and yellow

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• Short description matches Wikidata
• Use dmy dates from April 2022