Back علم داكوتا الجنوبية Arabic Сцяг Паўднёвай Дакоты Byelorussian Bandera de Dakota del Sud Catalan South Dakotas flag Danish Flagge South Dakotas German Flago de Suda Dakoto Esperanto Bandera de Dakota del Sur Spanish Lõuna-Dakota lipp Estonian Hego Dakotako bandera Basque پرچم داکوتای جنوبی Persian
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| Use | Civil and state flag    |
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| Proportion | 5:8 |
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| Design | A sky blue field with a version (in navy blue on white) of the state seal in the center, surrounded by gold triangles representing the sun's rays, surrounded in turn by inscriptions in gold sans-serif capitals of "south dakota" on top and "the mount rushmore state" (the state nickname) on the bottom. |
The current flag of South Dakota was adopted in 1992 to represent the U.S. state of South Dakota. It consists of a field of sky blue charged with a version (in navy blue on white) of the state seal in the center, surrounded by gold triangles representing the sun's rays, surrounded in turn by inscriptions in gold sans-serif capitals of "south dakota" on top and "the mount rushmore state" (the state nickname) on the bottom. The sun represents the common weather in South Dakota.
The first state flag was designed and adopted in 1909. This original flag was bi-faced, with a sun motif on one side and the state seal on the other. A redesign in 1963 embedded the state seal inside the original flag's sun motif. The inscription on the bottom was "the sunshine state" before it was changed in 1992.