North American Vexillological Association

The North American Vexillological Association (NAVA) is a membership organization devoted to "vexillology

Vexillology

Vexillology is the scholarly study of flags. The word is a synthesis of the Latin word vexillum, meaning 'flag', and the Greek suffix -logy, meaning 'study'. The vexillum was a particular type of flag used by Roman legions during the classical era; its name is a diminutive form of the word velum...

as the scientific study of flag

Flag

A flag is a piece of fabric with a distinctive design that is usually rectangular and used as a symbol, as a signaling device, or decoration. The term flag is also used to refer to the graphic design employed by a flag, or to its depiction in another medium.The first flags were used to assist...

s." Flag researchers, designers, collectors, activists, merchants, and other enthusiasts from the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

and Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

meet annually at NAVA meetings in order to present and discuss research papers, and to honor vexillological achievement with the following awards:

The Whitney Award, named from Whitney Smith
Whitney Smith
Whitney Smith is a professional vexillologist, i.e., scholar of flags. The term vexillology, which he coined in his 1958 article Flags of the Arab World, refers to the scholarly analysis of all aspects of flags. In 1961, Smith and colleague Gerhard Grahl cofounded The Flag Bulletin, the world's...

, awarded to outstanding contributors to North American Vexillology
The William Driver
William Driver
William Driver was a U.S. ship captain. He coined the phrase Old Glory for the U.S. flag.Young Capt. William Driver of Salem, Massachusetts was presented a beautiful flag by his family and a group of friends. Driver was delighted with the gift. He exclaimed, "I name her 'Old Glory,'" and Old Glory...

Award, awarded at each meeting for the best paper, and
The Vexillonnaire Award, which honors a significant success in activist vexillology.

NAVA members receive two publications:

An annual journal, Raven: A Journal of Vexillology

A quarterly newsletter, NAVA News

Members also receive special publications, the most recent being NAVA's 2006 guide to flag design, "Good Flag, Bad Flag", which has become used extensively in flag-creation efforts at the local and state level throughout the US. They also published a book about American city flags titled American City Flags

American City Flags (book)

American City Flags is a special edition of NAVA's Raven newsletter. It featured the flags of the 100 largest American cities and 50 more. NAVA later made a flag survey of the cities in the cook book.-Trivia:...

.

NAVA has attracted attention (particularly in high- or low-ranked cities or states) for publishing surveys evaluating the design quality of city and state flags. They note that NAVA members and the general public closely parallel each other on judging the quality of flags. The state flags found by NAVA to be considered of the poorest quality are those that simply have the state seal on a blue field. (See external links)

NAVA is a Charter Member of FIAV (Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques
Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques
The Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques is an international federation of 55 regional, national, and multinational associations and institutions across the globe that study vexillology, which FIAV defines in its constitution as "the creation and development of a body of...

), and among the largest flag-studies organizations anywhere.

Organizational flag

The flag of NAVA consists of a large white V (an inverted chevron) separating a blue triangle above from two red triangles on either side. The length of the top side of the blue triangle is the same as the width of the flag. (Note that a flag's "width" is its vertical dimension when flying from a flagpole.) The flag proportion is 2:3.

The V represents vexillology

Vexillology

. The colors are taken from the flags of the two countries covered by NAVA: Canada

Canada

(red and white) and the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

(red, white, and blue). NAVA's description of its flag

NAVA meetings and their flags

Since 1967 the association has held annual meetings in different locations across the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

and Canada

Canada

, and since 1977 has marked each of these occasions with a distinctive meeting flag.

Name	\|Meeting Flag	\|Meeting Flag Description
NAVA 0	Boston, Massachusetts, June 3, 1967	none	n/a	The flag of "The Flag Institute" was used for this meeting
NAVA 1	Purchase, New York Purchase, New York Purchase, New York is a hamlet of the town of Harrison, in Westchester County. Its ZIP code is 10577. Its name is derived from Harrison's purchase, for Harrison could have as much land as he could ride in one day... , November 18, 1967	none	n/a	n/a
NAVA 2	Chillum, Maryland Chillum, Maryland Chillum is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The population was 34,252 at the 2000 census... , October 12, 1968 – October 13, 1968	none	n/a	n/a
NAVA 3	Boston, Massachusetts, September 6, 1969 – September 7, 1969	none	n/a	Was the site for ICV 3, so their meeting flag was used.
NAVA 4	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States... , October 10, 1970 – October 11, 1970	none	n/a	n/a
NAVA 5	Ottawa, Ontario, October 23, 1971 – October 24, 1971	none	n/a	n/a
NAVA 6	Chicago, Illinois, October 28, 1972– October 29, 1972	none	n/a	n/a
NAVA 7	near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,... , November 2, 1973– November 4, 1973	none	n/a	n/a
NAVA 8	Baltimore, Maryland, October 12, 1974– October 14, 1974	none	n/a	n/a
NAVA 9	Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border... , October 12, 1975– October 14, 1975	none	n/a	n/a
NAVA 10	Toronto, Ontario, October 8, 1976– October 10, 1976	none	n/a	n/a
NAVA 11	Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution.... , June 10, 1977– June 14, 1977		Steve Stringfellow	The flag shows the NAVA colors (blue Blue Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal... , red Red Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630–740 nm. Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared , and cannot be seen by the naked eye... , and white White White is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness.White light can be... ) in an emblem resembling a lowercase N N N is the fourteenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet.- History of the forms :One of the most common hieroglyphs, snake, was used in Egyptian writing to stand for a sound like English ⟨J⟩, because the Egyptian word for "snake" was djet... , the 77 in 1977, and the number 11 11 (number) 11 is the natural number following 10 and preceding 12.Eleven is the first number which cannot be counted with a human's eight fingers and two thumbs additively. In English, it is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables and the largest prime number with a single-morpheme name... .
NAVA 12	Montgomery, Alabama Montgomery, Alabama Montgomery is the capital of the U.S. state of Alabama, and is the county seat of Montgomery County. It is located on the Alabama River southeast of the center of the state, in the Gulf Coastal Plain. As of the 2010 census, Montgomery had a population of 205,764 making it the second-largest city... , October 7, 1978– October 9, 1978		Charles Brannon
NAVA 13	Salem, Massachusetts Salem, Massachusetts Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County... , October 5, 1979– October 8, 1979		Alfred Znamierowski	A field of 13 alternating red and black horizontal stripes on which is centered a witch riding a broomstick. Refers to the host city's famous witchcraft trials, and to triskaidekaphobia Triskaidekaphobia Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number ; it is a superstition and related to a specific fear of Friday the 13th, called paraskevidekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia.The term was first used by Isador Coriat in Abnormal... , fear of the number 13 13 (number) 13 is the natural number after 12 and before 14. It is the smallest number with eight letters in its name spelled out in English. It is also the first of the teens – the numbers 13 through 19 – the ages of teenagers.... .
NAVA 14	St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St... , October 3, 1980– October 6, 1980		Dorothy Clayborne	The flag is the NAVA flag defaced in the bottom center by a blue fleur-de-lis Fleur-de-lis The fleur-de-lis or fleur-de-lys is a stylized lily or iris that is used as a decorative design or symbol. It may be "at one and the same time, political, dynastic, artistic, emblematic, and symbolic", especially in heraldry... within a yellow circle, a reference to the host city's flag Flag of St. Louis, Missouri The flag of St. Louis, Missouri, was designed by Yale University professor Theodore Sizer. The flag is often called the "Three Rivers" flag, symbolizing the confluence of the Mississippi, Missouri, and the Meramec rivers near St. Louis. The intersection of the blue lines is covered by a... .
NAVA 15	Ottawa, Ontario, August 24, 1981– August 27, 1981		Whitney Smith Whitney Smith Whitney Smith is a professional vexillologist, i.e., scholar of flags. The term vexillology, which he coined in his 1958 article Flags of the Arab World, refers to the scholarly analysis of all aspects of flags. In 1961, Smith and colleague Gerhard Grahl cofounded The Flag Bulletin, the world's...	The flag shows an upright chevron, similar to the NAVA chevron, but in Canadian colors (red Red Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630–740 nm. Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared , and cannot be seen by the naked eye... and white White White is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness.White light can be... ). Inside the chevron is the maple leaf emblem from the Canadian flag Flag of Canada The national flag of Canada, also known as the Maple Leaf, and , is a red flag with a white square in its centre, featuring a stylized 11-pointed red maple leaf. Its adoption in 1965 marked the first time a national flag had been officially adopted in Canada to replace the Union Flag... .
NAVA 16	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States... , October 8, 1982– October 10, 1982		Alfred Znamierowski	A yellow pennant with a double circle of 16 stars on a field of black; black and yellow are Pittsburgh's colors.
NAVA 17	New York City, New York, October 14, 1983– October 16, 1983		Phil Allen	The flag feature's New York City's colors (blue Blue Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal... , orange Orange (colour) The colour orange occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum at a wavelength of about 585–620 nm, and has a hue of 30° in HSV colour space. It is numerically halfway between red and yellow in a gamma-compressed RGB colour space, the expression of which is the RGB colour wheel. The... , and white White White is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness.White light can be... ) and an apple emblem representing the city's nickname, The Big Apple. In the apple is hidden Easter egg (media) Image:Carl Oswald Rostosky - Zwei Kaninchen und ein Igel 1861.jpg\|250px\|thumb\|right\|Example of Easter egg hidden within imagerect 467 383 539 434 desc none... the number 17.
NAVA 18	Vancouver, British Columbia, October 5, 1984– October 7, 1984		Ralph Holberg	The flag is a mixture of Vancouver's flag Flag of Vancouver The flag of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, was adopted by City Council on May 17, 1983. It was designed by Robert Watt, then the Director of the Vancouver Museum, and later the Chief Herald of Canada.... and NAVA's flag.
NAVA 19	Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties... , October 11, 1985– October 13, 1985		Ralph Holberg	The flag resembles Kansas City's former flag, as well as the NAVA flag. Inside the former Kansas City logo, there is a Roman numeral Roman numerals The numeral system of ancient Rome, or Roman numerals, uses combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet to signify values. The numbers 1 to 10 can be expressed in Roman numerals as:... number 19.
NAVA 20	Trenton, New Jersey Trenton, New Jersey Trenton is the capital of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Trenton had a population of 84,913... , October 10, 1986– October 12, 1986		Jim Ferrigan	The meeting flag incorporates Vs for "Vexillology" that form XX (Roman numeral 20), with the NAVA flag in the canton. The use of blue and gold in the background references the municipal flag of Trenton.
NAVA 21	San Francisco, California San Francisco, California San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland... , October 12, 1987– October 16, 1987		James Croft, Jim Ferrigan, and Whitney Smith	The flag shows the eagle and crown that is on the San Francisco flag Flag of San Francisco, California The flag of San Francisco, California, depicts a rising phoenix, often assumed to be symbol of the city's recovery from the 1906 Earthquake and fire, but it dates several years earlier to about 1900. San Francisco suffered several devastating fires, including six fires between 1849 and 1852 , along... . The background resembles the NAVA flag. This meeting was also the ICV 12 meeting.
NAVA 22	Portsmouth, New Hampshire Portsmouth, New Hampshire Portsmouth is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire in the United States. It is the largest city but only the fourth-largest community in the county, with a population of 21,233 at the 2010 census... , October 7, 1988– October 9, 1988		Ralph Holberg	The flag includes the International maritime signal flags International maritime signal flags The system of international maritime signal flags is one system of flag signals representing individual letters of the alphabet in signals to or from ships... for the letters P P P is the sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.-Usage:In English and most other European languages, P is a voiceless bilabial plosive. Both initial and final Ps can be combined with many other discrete consonants in English words... (Portsmouth), N N N is the fourteenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet.- History of the forms :One of the most common hieroglyphs, snake, was used in Egyptian writing to stand for a sound like English ⟨J⟩, because the Egyptian word for "snake" was djet... (New), and H H H .) is the eighth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet.-History:The Semitic letter ⟨ח⟩ most likely represented the voiceless pharyngeal fricative . The form of the letter probably stood for a fence or posts.... (Hampshire). A parody of the NAVA flag is shown at the top as a pennant.
NAVA 23	Dallas, Texas Dallas, Texas Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States... , October 20, 1989– October 22, 1989		John Purcell	The meeting flag colors are those of the United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... , Texas, Dallas, and NAVA. The star also represents Texas and Dallas.
NAVA 24	Toronto, Ontario, 1990		Sandra Armstrong	The flag includes the colors of NAVA and of Toronto.
NAVA 25	Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States... , 1991		Kevin Harrington	The flag shows blue Blue Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal... and white White White is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness.White light can be... , the Minneapolis colors, and is in the famous NAVA chevron shape. There is a yellow star in the center of the flag, which represents Minnesota. There is a red ribbon in the center of the flag which is in the shape of the number 25.
NAVA 26	San Antonio, Texas San Antonio, Texas San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,... , 1992		John H. Gámez	The NAVA chevron appears in red on the meeting flag, with five white stars. The number of the points on all of the stars is 26. A silhouette of the Alamo Alamo Mission in San Antonio The Alamo, originally known as Mission San Antonio de Valero, is a former Roman Catholic mission and fortress compound, site of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, and now a museum, in San Antonio, Texas.... is located in the background.
NAVA 27	Portland, Maine Portland, Maine Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000... , 1993		John R. B. Szala	The flag shows the NAVA colors.
NAVA 28	Portland, Oregon Portland, Oregon Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States... , 1994		Donald T. Healy	The flag shows the yellow beaver on the blue background, such as on the back of the Oregon flag Flag of Oregon The flag of the state of Oregon is a two-sided flag in navy blue and gold with an optional gold fringe. On the front is the escutcheon from the state seal and on the reverse is a gold figure of a beaver, the state animal. Oregon is the only U.S. state to have a two-sided flag.-History:The current... . The NAVA chevron is depicted in the Portland flag Flag of Portland, Oregon The city flag of Portland, Oregon, consists of a green field on which is placed a white four-pointed directional star from which radiate blue stripes, each bordered by L-shaped yellow elements. Narrow white fimbriations separate the blue and yellow elements from each other and from the green... 's colors, blue, white, and green.
NAVA 29	Covington, Kentucky Covington, Kentucky -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 43,370 people, 18,257 households, and 10,132 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,301.3 people per square mile . There were 20,448 housing units at an average density of 1,556.5 per square mile... , 1995		Secundino Fernandez	The NAVA chevron appears in red with the letter C C Ĉ or ĉ is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing the sound .Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for all four of its postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavic alphabets... above it. Both the waving blue lines and C appear on the flag of Cincinnati, the principal city of the region where the convention was held.
NAVA 30	Sacramento, California Sacramento, California Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,... , 1996		Richard A. Kenny and James J. Ferrigan III	The flag shows the California bear and star that appears on the California flag Flag of California The Bear Flag is the official flag of the state of California. The precursor of the flag was first flown during the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt and was also known as the Bear Flag.-Design:... . A Roman numeral 30 in yellow with a blue shadow also appears on the flag.
NAVA 31	Chicago, Illinois, October 10, 1997– October 12, 1997		John M. Purcell	The flag is the Chicago flag Municipal Flag of Chicago The municipal flag of Chicago consists of two blue horizontal stripes on a field of white, each stripe one-sixth the height of the full flag, and placed slightly less than one-sixth of the way from the top or bottom, respectively. Between the two blue stripes are four red, six-pointed stars... design bent in the shape of the NAVA chevron.
NAVA 32	Québec City, Québec, October 9, 1998–October 12, 1998		Jim Croft	The flag shows the fleur-de-lis Fleur-de-lis The fleur-de-lis or fleur-de-lys is a stylized lily or iris that is used as a decorative design or symbol. It may be "at one and the same time, political, dynastic, artistic, emblematic, and symbolic", especially in heraldry... that appears on the Québec flag Flag of Quebec The flag of Quebec, called the Fleurdelisé, was adopted for the province by the government of Quebec, during the administration of Maurice Duplessis. It was the first provincial flag officially adopted in Canada, first shown on January 21, 1948, at the Parliament Building of the National Assembly... . The NAVA chevron appears as blue and white rectangles going inside and outside, which is the border of the Québec City flag Flag of Quebec City The flag of Quebec City was officially adopted January 12, 1987.The flag depicts a golden yellow ship on a deep blue field surrounded by a crenelated white design representing its unique city walls.... .
NAVA 33	Victoria, British Columbia Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian... , July 28, 1999–August 2, 1999		Truman G. Pope	The flag shows a red, white, and blue NAVA chevron with the Canadian red maple leaf on top and yellow and blue waves, similar to the ones on the British Columbian flag Flag of British Columbia The flag of British Columbia is based upon the shield of the provincial arms of British Columbia. At the top of the flag is a rendition of the Union Flag, defaced in the centre by a crown, representing the province's origins as a British colony, with a setting sun below.-History:The British... .
NAVA 34	East Lansing, Michigan East Lansing, Michigan East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located directly east of Lansing, Michigan, the state's capital. Most of the city is within Ingham County, though a small portion lies in Clinton County. The population was 48,579 at the time of the 2010 census, an increase from... , October 6, 2000–October 8, 2000		John M. Purcell	The flag shows a letter M M M is the thirteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.-History:The letter M is derived from the Phoenician Mem, via the Greek Mu . Semitic Mem probably originally pictured water... in the United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... colors. Hidden in the middle of the M is the NAVA chevron. The background of the flag is blue, like the Michigan flag Flag of Michigan The Flag of the State of Michigan depicts the state's coat-of-arms on a dark blue field, as set forth by Michigan state law. -Design:... .
NAVA 35	Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. With a population of 242,803 as of the 2010 Census, it is Virginia's second-largest city behind neighboring Virginia Beach.... , October 5, 2001–October 7, 2001		Secundino Fernandez	The V V V is the twenty-second letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet.-Letter:The letter V comes from the Semitic letter Waw, as do the modern letters F, U, W, and Y. See F for details.... in Virginia and the NAVA chevron are put into one, and are located in the canton area of the flag. The background is blue, like the Virginia flag Flag of Virginia The flag of the Commonwealth of Virginia consists of the seal of Virginia against a blue background. The current version of the flag was adopted at the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861... , and the flag incorporates elements of the flag of Hampton Roads.
NAVA 36	Aurora, Colorado Aurora, Colorado City of Aurora is a Home Rule Municipality spanning Arapahoe, Adams, and Douglas counties in Colorado. Aurora is an eastern suburb of the Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area . The city is the third most populous city in the Colorado and the 56th most populous city in the... , August 30, 2002 – September 1, 2002		Secundino Fernandez and David Martucci	The flag resembles the Denver flag Flag of Denver, Colorado The flag of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, was designed by a local high school student and adopted in 1926. A zigzag white stripe horizontally separates a blue field above, in which is centered a yellow circle, from a red field below, together forming a stylized depiction of the sun in a... , with enhancements to make the bottom part of the flag to look like the NAVA flag.
NAVA 37	Montréal, Québec, October 10, 2003 – October 12, 2003		Morgan Milner	The flag has a cross, like the Montréal flag Flag of Montreal The current flag of Montreal was first displayed in May 1939, and is based on the city's coat of arms. The flag's proportions are 1:2 in a symmetric cross.-Symbolism:... and the Québec flag Flag of Quebec The flag of Quebec, called the Fleurdelisé, was adopted for the province by the government of Quebec, during the administration of Maurice Duplessis. It was the first provincial flag officially adopted in Canada, first shown on January 21, 1948, at the Parliament Building of the National Assembly... . In the canton, the NAVA flag appears with a white fleur-de-lis Fleur-de-lis The fleur-de-lis or fleur-de-lys is a stylized lily or iris that is used as a decorative design or symbol. It may be "at one and the same time, political, dynastic, artistic, emblematic, and symbolic", especially in heraldry... in the chevron area, such as the ones on the Montréal flag and Québec flag.
NAVA 38	Indianapolis, Indiana Indianapolis, Indiana Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S... , October 8, 2004 – October 10, 2004		Jim Croft	The flag shows the NAVA chevron on a background of black and white checks, representing the checkered flag Racing flags Racing flags are traditionally used in auto racing and similar motorsports to indicate track condition and to communicate important messages to drivers. Typically, the starter, sometimes the grand marshal of a race, waves the flags atop a flag stand near the start/finish line... used in auto racing Auto racing Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:... , representing the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Indianapolis Motor Speedway The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, located in Speedway, Indiana in the United States, is the home of the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race and the Brickyard 400.... . In the chevron area of the flag, a black-and-white version of the Indianapolis flag Flag of Indianapolis, Indiana The flag of Indianapolis was adopted on May 20, 1963. It was designed by Roger Gohl, at the time a student at the Herron School of Art. The white star represents the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, and its centralization the fact that Indianapolis is the state capital of Indiana. The white circle... appears.
NAVA 39	Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home... , October 7, 2005 – October 9, 2005		James W. Ritchie	The flag shows the NAVA chevron appearing as the blue bar on the right of the Tennessee flag Flag of Tennessee The flag of the state of Tennessee consists of an emblem on a field of red, with a strip of blue on the fly. The emblem of the middle consists of three stars on a blue circle. The flag was designed by Colonel LeRoy Reeves of the Tennessee National Guard. The Tennessee State Legislature officially... . The circle and stars on the Tennessee flag appears in the chevron area of the flag.
NAVA 40	Reno, Nevada Reno, Nevada Reno is the county seat of Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The city has a population of about 220,500 and is the most populous Nevada city outside of the Las Vegas metropolitan area... , October 13, 2006 – October 15, 2006		Sophie Rault	The proportions of the flag are 5:8, it is swallow-tailed (as for NAVA 20 and NAVA 30). The blue field, the silver star in the canton and the golden-yellow strip remind of the Nevada State Flag. The 3 blue-white-red strips remind of NAVA. There are 4 strips to celebrate 40 years of NAVA. The strips are V-shaped for Vexillology.
NAVA 41	Glastonbury, Connecticut Glastonbury, Connecticut Glastonbury is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, founded in 1693. The population was 31,876 at the 2000 census. The town was named after Glastonbury in Somerset, England. Glastonbury is located on the banks of the Connecticut River, 7 miles southeast of Hartford. The town... , October 12, 2007 – October 14, 2007		Dean Thomas	The three grape vines are from the state arms of Connecticut, and the blue and white colors recall the Connecticut state flag. The "V" motif symbolizes vexillology. The proportions are 3:5.
NAVA 42	Austin, Texas Austin, Texas Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in... , October 10, 2008 – October 12, 2008		Peter Krag (1839)	Rectangle variant of the Texas revenue service flag, originally adopted in 1839.
NAVA 43	Charleston, South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was made the county seat of Charleston County in 1901 when Charleston County was founded. The city's original name was Charles Towne in 1670, and it moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of the... , October 9, 2009 – October 11, 2009		John Purcell, Charles Spain, Ron Strachan, and Hugh Brady	A purple C-shaped decrescent (for Charleston and Charles II Charles II of England Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War... ) on a golden "sun in splendor" on a purple field, in 3:5 proportion. The "valleys" between the sun's rays are meant to evoke "v" for vexillology.
NAVA 44	Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, California Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California... , October 8, 2010 – October 10, 2010		William M. Belanich, Jr	The three colors of the flag of Los Angeles (Green, Yellow and Red) with the "44" in yellow located in the green area of the flag The red and green is separated by a yellow zig-zag resembling the "v" for Vexillology.
NAVA 45	Washington, DC, August 1, 2011 – August 5, 2011		Peggy Rose	The IVC 24 Congress flag was used.

External links

NAVA website
- City flag survey
- State flag survey

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