Meurthe-et-Moselle (Department, France)

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• Former flag of the General Council
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  Blénod-lès-Pont-à-Mousson Fontenoy-la-Joûte Homécourt Longwy Lunéville

  Pagny-sur-Moselle Pont-à-Mousson Toul Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy

• Yacht clubs and rowing clubs

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• France: Metropolitan departments
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Administrative data

Code: 54
Region: Grand Est (Lorraine until 2014)
Traditional province: Lorraine
Bordering departments: Meuse, Moselle, Vosges
Bordering countries: Belgium (Province of Luxembourg), Luxembourg

Area: 5,246 km²
Population (2019): 733,821 inhabitants

Préfecture: Nancy
Sous-préfectures: Briey, Lunéville, Toul
Subdivisions: 4 arrondissements, 23 cantons, 592 municipalities.

The department is named after rivers Meurthe (170 km) and Moselle (550 km), both tributary to the Rhine.
The department was created on 7 September 1871, encompassing the parts of the former departments of Meurthe (arrondissements of Lunéville, Nancy and Toul) and Moselle (arrondissement of Briey) that remained French by the Treaty of Francfort. On 1 January 1997, the municipality of Han-devant-Pierrepont was transferred from Meuse to Meurthe-et-Moselle.

Ivan Sache, 12 April 2019

Flag in use in official circumstances

Flag representing the Departmental council of Meurthe-et-Moselle - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 21 December 2024

The services of the Departmental Council of Meurthe-et-Moselle confirmed on 17 April 2019 that the Council currently does not have any flag.

In official circumstances, the departmental council of Meurthe-et-Moselle usually does not have any flag of its own and flies the traditional flag of Lorraine: photo (2024).
However, a white flag with logo could be observed during the Executive Summit of Greater Region in Mainz - December 13, 2024: photo (2024). The current logo was adopted in 2017.

Olivier Touzeau, 23 April 2019 & 21 December 2024

Former flag of the General Council

Former flag of the General Council of Meurthe-et-Moselle - Image by Ivan Sache, 30 September 2009

The former flag of the General Council of Meurthe-et-Moselle, used until 2007 and ther adoption of a new logo is white with the Council's former logo.
The logo shows, on a white background, a stylized blue ampersand, also recalling the map of the department, placed over a yellow square flanked by "CONSEIL GÉNÉRAL" (top) and "MEURTHE ET MOSELLE" (bottom) in blue letters.

Ivan Sache & Pascal Vagnat, 30 September 2009