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adopted 26 Jan 1962

• Soest municipality
• Soest old unofficial flag
• Soest Coat of Arms See also:
• Utrecht Province
• Utrecht Province - The Municipalities
• The Netherlands
• Alphabetical list of Dutch municipalities
• The Netherlands - Index of all pages

Soest municipality

Population (1 Jan 2003): 44.686; area: 46,47 km²; settlements: Soest (seat), Soestdijk, Soestduinen, Soesterberg.
Flagdescription: seven stripes of green, yellow, green, white, green, yellow and green, proportioned 3:1:3:4:3:1:3, and of which the middle bar is wavy.
This flag was adopted 26 Jan 1962 by municipal resolution. The colors are derived from the municipal arms. The wavy bar represents the river Eem.
Unofficially the citizens used to wapper flags with two equally wide horizontal bars of green and white.
Source: Sierksma's Nederlands Vlaggenboek, 1962 [sie62]

Soest old unofficial flag

[](../images/n/nl-ut%5Fso.gif)Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.flagchart.net

Soest Coat of Arms

[so.gif)](../images/n/nl-ut%29so.gif)from the Soest municipal website.

Granted 11 Sep 1816. Revised 10 Jan 1962.