Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #ce1126
- #000000
- #0072c6
- #ffffff
- #fcd116
How it is put together
Nothing the measurement has a word for. It reads eight shapes off a picture: bands, a canton, a wedge at the pole, a disc. This flag is not any of them, so the space is left empty rather than filled with a description nobody took. The finder says what else it cannot see.
What is on it
Each of these is what this flag's own Wikipedia article says is on it, the sentence is underneath, so you can see what it rests on.
- sun
The design is a red field with an inverted isosceles triangle based on the top edge of the field pointed toward the bottom edge of the field bearing the horizontal tricolour of black, light blue (half width) and white with the rising sun centred on top of the black band.
Flag of Antigua and Barbuda on Wikipedia
What we know about it
More than 600 people entered the competition, and the winning design was Sir Reginald Samuel's; it came in on 27 February 1967 to mark the achievement of self-government, eleven days after royal assent to the West Indies Act 1967, and was kept after full independence on 1 November 1981. The rising sun is the dawning of a new era, black is for the African ancestry of the people, blue for hope and for the Caribbean Sea, the red for energy or life; the V-shape is the symbol of victory, and the seven points stand for the six parishes and the island of Barbuda.
Drafted from Flag of Antigua and Barbuda on Wikipedia, as it read on 2026-08-26, and checked back against it: every date, name and number above appears in the sentences it was written from. Nobody here wrote it by hand.
Its day
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on one of them, with the sentence that says so.
Nearest in the world
Every flag is compared with every other one, off the pictures themselves. Two copies of one picture score 0; these are the closest to this one. How that is measured.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Antigua and Barbuda is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit Original: Sir Reginald Samuel Vector: David Benbennick
From Flag of Antigua and Barbuda.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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