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Flag of Nièvre - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 28 April 2019
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Code: 58
Region: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (Bourgogne until 2014)
Traditional provinces: Nivernais,
Orléanais,
Bourgogne
Bordering departments: Allier,
Cher,
Côte-d'Or,
Loiret,
Saône-et-Loire,
Yonne
Area: 6,817 km2
Population (2016): 209,161 inhabitants
Préfecture: Nevers
Sous-préfectures: Château-Chinon, Clamecy,
Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire
Subdivisions: 4 arrondissements, 17 cantons, 309 municipalities.
The department is named after river Nièvre (53 km), a tributary to the Loire.
Ivan Sache, 15 April 2019
In 2015, General Councils were renamed to Departmental Councils. The Departmental Council modified its logo, replacing the words "Conseil
général de la Nièvre" by the words "Conseil départemental".
Blue flags with the logo (photo,
photo,
photo) are used in the seat of the
Departmental Council.
A new logo was adopted at the end of 2018.
Olivier Touzeau, 28 April 2019
Flag of the former General Council of Nièvre, two versions - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 28 April 2019
In 2011, the General Council adopted a new logo, used on white flags (photo) and, subsequently, on blue flags (photo, , photo).
Olivier Touzeau, 28 April 2019
Older flags of the General Council of Nièvre - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 28 April 2019, & Ivan Sache, 25 November 2001, respectively
The previous flag of the General Council of Nièvre was white with the Council's logo in the middle.
The logo is a parallelogram divided black-green by an ascending
sinuous white road, forming a stylized "N". CONSEIL GÉNÉRAL DE LA NIÈVRE is written in black letters below. On the amended logo, the upper part is brown instead of black and the writing, in italics, is placed above the parallelogram, CONSEIL GÉNÉRAL in black letters in a white cartouche, DE LA NIÈVRE in white letter on the top of the brown panel.
Pascal Vagnat & Ivan Sache, 20 June 2010
Flag of the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 29 April 2019
The Circuit of Nevers Magny-Cours, a motor racing circuit located near the
towns of Magny-Cours and Nevers, staged the Formula One French Grand Prix from 1991 to 2008, and the 24-hour Bol d'Or motorcycle endurance events from 2000 to 2014. It has
hosted the Superbike World Championship in 1991 and annually since 2003, and
several additional international championships: World Sportscar
Championship, World Touring Car Championship, FIA GT Championship, World
Series by Renault and Formula 3 Euroseries.
Built in 1960 by Jean Bernigaud, the circuit was home to the
prestigious Winfield racing school with drivers as François Cevert (1944-1973), Jacques Laffite (b. 1943), and Didier Pironi (1952-1987). In the 1980s the track fell into disrepair and was not used for international motor racing until it was purchased by the
General Council of Nièvre in 1986.
The flag of the circuit is blue with its logo.
Olivier Touzeau, 29 April 2019