Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States behind Chicago, Illinois, Columbus, Ohio, Indianapolis, Indiana, and Detroit, Michigan. The seat of Milwaukee County, it is on Lake Michigan’s western shore. Ranked by its estimated 2019 population of 590,157, Milwaukee is the 31st largest city in the United States and the third-largest city situated along one of the Great Lakes, behind Toronto and Chicago. It is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee metropolitan area which had a population of 2,043,904 in the 2014 census estimate. The official flag of Milwaukee was adopted in 1954. It displays symbols of Milwaukee on a medium blue background, with the city name below all the elements in Copperplate Gothic. In the center, a gear, representing industry, bears symbols of Milwaukee’s identity and history. An Indian head, resembling the Milwaukee Braves logo at the time, represents Native American origins. A flag with two stars, said to be a Civil War-era flag, may also represent a service flag. A lamp symbol in the upper right was once associated with the Milwaukee City Library. Below this is Milwaukee City Hall, representing government, which is flanked by abstract outlines of a church, housing, a factory, the Milwaukee Arena, and the former County Stadium (demolished in 2001) along a straight shoreline with waves representing Lake Michigan. The golden barley stalk on the left represents Milwaukee’s brewing history, and the red ship with water symbolizes Milwaukee’s status as a port city, with the 1846 date of city incorporation from the merger with Byron Kilbourn’s Kilbourntown and Solomon Juneau’s Juneautown on the flag’s right vertically. Full HD.