Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #012169
- #c8102e
- #ffffff
- #00a2dd
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.
- cross
The cross alludes to the Christian heritage of the island, while the woman's hold of it signifies the Montserratians' love of Christ.
Flag of Montserrat on Wikipedia
- coat of arms
The flag of Montserrat consists of a Blue Ensign with the British overseas territory's coat of arms.
Flag of Montserrat on Wikipedia
- human figure
The woman donning a green dress portrays Erin, the national personification of Ireland.
Flag of Montserrat on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Montserrat was granted its own shield on 10 April 1909, and it went onto the Blue Ensign after the British Leeward Islands federation was dissolved on 1 July 1956; the Admiralty authorised it, and in 1960 it was adopted as a proxy national flag. A redesign came in 1999: the shield was increased in size, and the white disc removed and replaced with a white outline. The woman on the shield portrays Erin, the national personification of Ireland, and the Celtic harp in her grasp is another representation of it, both of them a tribute to the Irish settlers who came to the island from 1632 onwards.
Drafted from Flag of Montserrat 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.
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. Montserrat is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1200 × 600
From Flag of Montserrat.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
