Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #003893
- #ffffff
- #dd7500
Other flags with white, blue or orange or all of white, blue and orange at once.
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 we know about it
The republic's first First Lady, Emlain Kabua, designed the flag, adopted at the start of self-government on May 1, 1979. The rising diagonal band is the equator, the star above it this Northern Hemisphere archipelago; white and orange in the band are the Ratak Chain (sunrise) and the Ralik Chain (sunset), and also peace and courage. The star's 24 points are the electoral districts and the four elongated ones the principal cultural centers of Majuro, Jaluit, Wotje and Ebeye; no other national flag carries a star with as many points.
Drafted from Flag of the Marshall 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. Marshall Islands is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1140 × 600
Credit No machine-readable author provided. SKopp assumed (based on copyright claims).
From Flag of the Marshall 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.
