File:Flag of Østfold.svg

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DescriptionFlag of Østfold.svg	English: The flag of the former county of Østfold, Norway. Its design is shared with the county arms, and shows a sunbeam, which makes two different links symbolically. Firstly, as the sun rises in the east, it refers to the name and geographic location of the county ("øst" means east in Norwegian). Secondly, the solar design alludes to the fertility worship expressed in the numerous Bronze Age petroglyphs found in Østfold. In heraldry, the rays of the sun are often depicted as alternatingly straight and wavy, with the straight rays being said to represent light, and the wavy ones heat. The flag was approved by royal resolution 1958‐09‐26.
Date	26 September 1958
Source	Østfold fylke, flagg – Arkivverkets digitale fotoarkiv Forskrift om fylkesvåpen og fylkesflagg, Østfold – Lovdata ⸻ (Sources of the oldest file version:) Based on File:..Østfold Flag(NORWAY).png and File:Østfold våpen.svg
Author	Hallvard Trætteberg, vectorization by VulpesVulpes42 ⸻ (Authorship information for the oldest file version:) PNG flag by AlexR.L. (CC-BY-SA 3.0) Coat of arms by SKvalen (PD-Norwegian CoA) SVG flag by SiBr₄

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	17:29, 23 December 2022	1,000 × 1,000 (2 KB)	Espandero	Reverted to version as of 10:34, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
	17:30, 21 December 2022	1,000 × 1,000 (2 KB)	YoanTaskov	Reverted to version as of 15:22, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
	10:34, 6 June 2021	1,000 × 1,000 (2 KB)	VulpesVulpes42	And, changed the red to match :')
	20:22, 5 June 2021	1,000 × 1,000 (2 KB)	VulpesVulpes42	Adjusted the shade of yellow.
	09:49, 4 June 2021	1,000 × 1,000 (2 KB)	VulpesVulpes42	Tweaked the colors.
	15:22, 27 March 2021	1,000 × 1,000 (2 KB)	VulpesVulpes42	Redid the flag from scratch to more closely match the original drawing.
	19:20, 26 June 2014	2,000 × 2,100 (859 bytes)	SiBr4	User created page with UploadWizard