The flag of

Skopje Skopje ( , , ; mk, Скопје ; sq, Shkup) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre. The territory of Skopje has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC; r ...

(in mk, Знаме на Скопје) is a red vertical banner in proportions 1:2 with the coat of arms of the city in golden-

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placed in its left upper quarter. The coat of arms has the form of a shield and on it are pictured: the Stone Bridge with the

Vardar River The Vardar (; mk, , , ) or Axios () is the longest river in North Macedonia and the second longest river in Greece, in which it reaches the Aegean Sea at Thessaloniki. It is long, out of which are in Greece, and drains an area of around . Th ...

, the fortress Kale and the snowy peaks of a mountain. The old flag of Skopje in Socialist Yugoslavia was seen in an exhibition of Socialist partner cities of

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(then in the

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), in the beginning of the 1980s. The emblem must have been adopted in the 1950s or even before. In any case, it was shown on 1969 postage stamps of Yugoslavia.

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