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Guadeloupe (Overseas Department and Region, France)

French national flag - Image by Željko Heimer, 22 September 2001

Administrative data
Official flag of Guadeloupe
Unofficial flags of Guadeloupe
- Flag in sport and cultural events
- Banners of arms
Region Guadeloupe
Department of Guadeloupe

See also:

Administrative data

Code: 971
Area: 1,628 km²
Population (2020): 383,559 inhabitants

Préfecture: Basse-Terre
Sous-préfecture: Pointe-à-Pitre
Subdivisions: 2 arrondissements, 21 cantons, 32 municipalities.

Official flag of Guadeloupe

The official flag of Guadeloupe is the French national flag.

Ivan Sache, 18 February 2005

Unofficial flags of Guadeloupe

Flag in use in sport and cultural events

Flag of Guadeloupe in sportive and cultural events
Image (left) by Zoltan Horváth, 7 June 2024 - Photo (right) located by Jason Saber, 8 April 2024

The team from Guadeloupe at the CARIFTA Games currently being held in Grenada. This is the flag proposed by the UPLG since 1978, the most popular in the archipelago.
The same flag was carried by the Guadeloupe team in 2023 Carifta Games: photo.
This flag also came to Japan in 2023 for Trinidad born Soca (Soul Calypso) music festival in Japan: photo.

Jason Saber, Nozomi Kariyasu & Paraskevas Renesis, 8 April 2024

This is the flag of Union Populaire pour la Libération de la Guadeloupe, created in 1978 by Claude Makouke. The party flag was proposed by the UPLG as national in the second congress of the party in December 1984. Red symbolizes the blood of the nation, of the slaves; the green is nature, and the star is the island being yellow from the sun and being five-pointed across the five continents as a symbol of international solidarity. It was widely used at the Conference of the French colonies of Guadeloupe on April 5-7, 1985.

Jaume Ollé, 7 May 2024

Banners of arms

Unofficial flags of Guadeloupe - Images by Pierre Gay & António Martins, 1 October 2006

Guadeloupe is sometimes represented by a banner of the arms of the island's main town, Pointe-à-Pitre. The flag features, on a black or red background a yellow sun and a green sugar cane, and a blue stripe charged with yellow fleurs-de-lis on the top.
The flag appears to be used for touristic purpose only.

Pascal Vagnat, António Martins, Pierre Gay & Al Kirsch, 19 January 2001

Vexilla Mundi [website] illustrates the red version of Guadeloupe unofficial flag under the French flag, and gives a construction details and colors in Pantone system: PMS 186C (red), PMS 287C (blue), PMS Yellow C, and PMS 362C (green).

Flag Color Codes [website] gives color values as follows for red unofficial flag:
Blue: Hex: # 002488, RGB 0-36-136, CMYK 100-74-0, 47, Pantone 287 C, RAL 5002
Red: Hex: # DA121A, RGB 218-18-26, CMYK 0-92-88-15, Pantone 2035 C, RAL 3028
Yellow: Hex: # FCDD09, RGB 252-221-9, CMYK 0-12-96-1, Pantone Yellow C, RAL 1026
Green: Hex. # 008000, RGB 0-128-0, CMYK 100-0-100-50, Pantone 356 C, RAL 6037

Zoltan Horváth, 7 June 2024

Flag of Region Guadeloupe

Flag of Region Guadeloupe - Image by Zoltan Horváth, 7 June 2024

The flag of Region Guadeloupe (photo, photo) is white with the Region's emblem in the middle.
The emblem of Region Guadeloupe features a stylized seagull and a rising sun. Blue represents the sky and the sea while green represents the island.

Ivan Sache, 26 November 2016

Flag Color Codes [website] gives color values as follows for the Region Guadeloupe flag:
Blue: Hex: # 127bca, RGB 18-123-202, CMYK 91-39-0-21, Pantone 3005 C, RAL 5015
Yellow: Hex: # fff200, RGB 255-242-0, CMYK 0-5-100-0, Pantone 803 C, RAL 1026
White: Hex. # FFF FFF, RGB 255-255-255, CMYK 0-0-0-0, Pantone N/A, RAL N/A
Dark Blue: Hex: # 2e3192, RGB 46-49-146, CMYK 69-67-0-43, Pantone 10249 C, RAL 5002
Green: Hex. # 00a650, RGB 0-166-80, CMYK 100-0-52-35, Pantone 7482 C, RAL 6024
Black: Hex. #000000, RGB 0-0-0, CMYK 0-0-0-100, Pantone Black, RAL 9005

Zoltan Horváth, 7 June 2024

Flag of Department of Guadeloupe

Flags of the Department of Guadeloupe
left, current flag, image by Zoltan Horváth; right, former flag, image by Olivier Touzeau, 7 June 2024

The logo of the Departmental council [official website] is used on a white flag. Symbolism of its logo [source: emblemes.free.fr website]:
“A color code symbolic of the natural elements of the archipelago. Blue, for the sea and the sky. Green, for a land rich in relief. Yellow, for the sun giving life to the environment (crops, sea, mild climate...). A graphic design representative of the mission of the General Council. The Community at the service of the population, is expressed by the two profiles standing out in the sky and looking outwards (The future). The General Council is therefore represented in its human identity. The curvature of the coconut tree gives birth to the silhouette of the island, characteristic of the two lands that compose it, resting on two overlapping blue bands: a light blue (the island with beautiful waters), a dark blue (the sea). Integration into the geographical environment is thus expressed.”

Zoltan Horváth, 7 June 2024

Before 2015, French departmental council were named"general councils". The former logo before 2015 had the words "Conseil général".

Olivier Touzeau, 7 June 2024