Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #012169
- #ffffff
- #c8102e
Other flags with red, white or blue or all of red, white and blue at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- a single-coloured ground
The fly edge and the foot are one colour, and the same one, whatever else is drawn on top of it.
- a canton
A rectangle in the top corner by the pole that is not what the rest of the flag is, and that stops cleanly on both its sides.
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.
- star
It is a blue ensign containing the Union Jack in the upper left, and on the right, fifteen stars in a ring.
Flag of the Cook Islands on Wikipedia
What we know about it
The Cook Islands Parliament saw a Federal Flag Bill proposed in 1892, which was not assented to; New Zealand annexed the islands in 1901, and its own flag was used instead. A contest in 1973 drew 120 entries, and the winner (an ensign with 15 stars in a circle) was raised for the first time on 24 January 1974, only to be replaced by the current flag in 1979. The fifteen stars stand for the fifteen islands of the country, and the blue is the ocean, and the peaceful nature of the inhabitants; in December 2023 Prime Minister Mark Brown suggested changing back to the 1973–1979 version, and in January 2024 that the decision could be put to a referendum.
Drafted from Flag of the Cook Islands 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. Cook Islands is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1200 × 600
From Flag of the Cook Islands.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
