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The full flag featuring the sun is called the 'Official Ceremony Flag' ([[Spanish language|spanish]]: ''Bandera Oficial de Ceremonia'').

The flag without the [[Sun of May|sun]] is considered the 'Ornamental Flag' ([[Spanish language|spanish]]: ''Bandera de Ornato''). The ornamental version must always be hoisted below the Official Ceremony Flag.

In [[vexillology|vexillological]] terms, the Official Ceremony Flag is the civil, state and war flag and ensign, whilst the Ornamental Flag is an alternate civil flag and [[ensign]].

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===The sun===

The sun, called [[Sun of May]], is a replica of an engraving on the first Argentine coin, approved in [[1813]], whose value was eight ''escudos'' (one Spanish dollar).

In [[1978]] the sun colour was specified to be golden yellow (''amarillo oro''), to have an inner diameter of 10 centimeters diameter, and an outer diameter of 25 centimeters (the diameter of the sun equals <math>5/6th</math> the height of the white stripe. The sun's face is <math>2/5th</math> of its height)

It features 32 rays, 16 undulated and 16 straight, in alternation.