The flag of Jersey City, New Jersey, is a vertical tricolor of blue, white, and yellow, with the city's seal in the center.
Symbolism[]
The three stripes of blue, white, and yellow are supposed to commemorate the colors of the Dutch, as Jersey City was located in the province of New Netherlands. However, the color yellow would more appropriately be orange, as blue, white, and orange were the colors in the Dutch national flag and its trading companies in the early 1600s. The sailing ship is the Half Moon, in which the explorer Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River in 1609. Jersey City is on the west side of this river, across from Manhattan Island. Today the ships represent the maritime commerce of the city. The pier heads in the background reflect the early Dutch settlement established here in 1630 as Communipaw.
2004 NAVA survey[]
The previous flag ranked 87th on the 2004 NAVA city flag survey, with a score of 3.79 out of 10, tied with Garland, Texas, and, Lincoln, Nebraska.
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