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The flag of the state of Iowa consists of three vertical stripes of blue, white, and red, reflecting Iowa's history as part of the French French Louisiana Territory. (Because of the wider middle stripe and symmetric design, the design is sometimes classified as a "Canadian pale".) The image of a bald eagle with a long ribbon reading "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain", taken from the Seal of Iowa, is centered in the middle white stripe. The word "Iowa" is placed directly below it in red, serifed and in upper case.

The flag was adopted in 1921; it was first approved in May 1917, by the Iowa State Council for Defense. It was designed in 1917, by Knoxville, Iowa, resident Mrs. Dixie Cornell Gebhardt, of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Iowa.

Proposals for a New Flag of Iowa[]

Shown below are designs that have been proposed for a new flag of Iowa.

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-|designer={{w|Dixie Cornell Gebhardt}}
+|designer = {{w|Dixie Cornell Gebhardt}}
-|adoption=12 March 1921
+|adoption = 12 March 1921
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-|NAVA rank=42nd
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 ==Proposals for a New Flag of Iowa==
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-Shown below are designs that have been proposed for a new flag of Iowa.
+File:Iowa R5 Result.png|Poll Results - Iowa Contest - from Facebook page "US State Flags - Current, Historical and Proposed" July 2021
+</gallery>Shown below are designs that have been proposed for a new flag of Iowa.
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+Ioway.JPG|State seal is replaced with Siouan hawk symbol to invoke "the 'Hawkeye' State".
 Proposed IA Flag FlagFreak.png|IA Proposed Flag "FlagFreak"
 IA Flag Proposal Lord Grattan.gif|IA Flag Proposal "Lord Grattan"
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 Hawkeye Militia.png|Iowa flag
 Iowa5theye.png|IA flag proposal "5thEye"
-iowabare.png|Serratted division to stand for the state rock of Geode which has a crystaline interior. Color set as per French National flag.Design by Rotten Ali.
+Iowabare.png|Serratted division to stand for the state rock of Geode which has a crystaline interior. Color set as per French National flag.Design by Rotten Ali.
 Iowa - Diagonal Tricolor.png|Iowa flag proposed by Ken Morton. This flag turns the French "Tricolour" on a 45 degree angle; the intent here is to reference the clipped parallelogram-like shape of the state of Iowa. The text and eagle, present on the current state flag, are eliminated for reasons of aesthetics and simplicity.
 Iowa - Stripes.png|My second design for an Iowa state flag - Posted by Ken Morton
 Screenshot 2018-07-20 at 09.42.51.png|A state, bordered by two rivers, with the golden circle in the center representing the sun and the corn harvest. By Dmitri McDonald, 2018.
-Iowa Redesign.png|"The Eye of the Hawk Flag" by [[User:Moraisdethiago|Moraisdethiago]]. January 2019. ([[User:Moraisdethiago/Flag Proposals/American States#Iowa|details]])
 FleurDeLis&Eagle.png|A simplified and markedly more french take on the Iowan flag
-Proposal Flag of Iowa 1.png|Proposal "less is more" for a flag for Iowa, taking off all letters and symbols of the current flag. The only drawback to this is that the flag looks a lot like the French flag.
+Proposal Flag of Iowa 1.svg|Proposal "less is more" for a flag for Iowa, taking off all letters and symbols of the current flag. The only drawback to this is that the flag looks a lot like the French flag. By [[User:Qaz_Janssen|Qaz]] Dec 2019 ([[User:Qaz Janssen/Proposals/Subnational/US-CTR#Iowa|details]])
-Proposal Flag of Iowa 2.png|Proposal "we have our own flag now" for a flag for Iowa. Dividing the flag in five equal bands of blue, white, red, white and blue makes it look less like a copy of the French flag, while still being related.
+Proposal Flag of Iowa 2.svg|Proposal "we have our own flag now" for a flag for Iowa. Dividing the flag in five equal bands of blue, white, red, white and blue makes it look less like a copy of the French flag, while still being related. By [[User:Qaz_Janssen|Qaz]] Dec 2019 ([[User:Qaz Janssen/Proposals/Subnational/US-CTR#Iowa|details]])
+Fixed Iowa@2x-100.jpg|The two inverted triangles represent the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers which flank the state to the west and east respectively. The yellow circle represents the sun over the plains of the state. And all four figures in the flag are iconized representations of the letters I, O, W, and A.
+Iowa New Flag 6.png|IA Flag Proposal "apollohawkridge"
+IA Flag Proposed.png|Proposed Iowa Flag - referring to the past, I kept the variant on the French flag (referencing the LA Purchase) but put them askew to show upward movement (toward the future). The eagle has been up updated and simplified and given more of a soaring appearance rather than a head down sulking and holding the banner.  The motto remains, but is added as an embellished or decorative boarder on both the blue and red fields.  Thanks, Marc
+Iowa6.png|As current flag, but with light blue (shade taken from state seal) to represent Missouri and Mississippi Rivers
+Iowa9.png|Gold for corn and sunshine, blue-white-red from current flag, light blue for open skies and Missouri/Mississippi Rivers
+Iowa10a.png|Same as above, but maintaining eagle from current flag
+Iowa13.png|Variation above, emphasizing sun. The vertical stripes and sun can be seen together as making 'IO', first two letters of state name
+Iowa-sun2.png|Border colors from current flag; disc at center represents the sun rising over Iowa cornfields.
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+{{United States}}
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