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Both horizontal and vertical flags with stripes or white and blue lozenges without arms can be considered official for use as state and civil flag and as civil ensign (on lakes and rivers). The variants defaced with the arms are not only unofficial, but not considered legal. However, the defacto used civil flag is in most cases a lozenge-style flag with the arms and a very popular symbol of regional pride used and displayed throughout the state.