Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #ce1126
- #002b7f
Other flags with red or blue or all of red 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.
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
The flag of Samoa (Samoan: fu‘a o Sāmoa) is a red field with a blue canton bearing five white five-pointed stars arranged to form the Southern Cross constellation.
Flag of Samoa on Wikipedia
What we know about it
The paramount chiefs Malietoa Tanumafili II and Tupua Tamasese Meaʻole designed it in 1948 with four stars, at a time when New Zealand had the stewardship of Samoa as the Territory of Western Samoa. In 1949 the smaller fifth star was added. Three Samoan flags came before it: Malietoa Laupepa introduced the first in 1873, his rival Tupua Tamasese Titimaea took it as his own standard with a different cross, and when Samoa became a League of Nations mandate in 1920 the territorial flag was a Blue Ensign carrying three palms on a sandy surface. No official symbolism is assigned, though Smith and the Samoan scholar Musuiaiga Neil Sitagata-Tapu report red as courage and blue as freedom.
Drafted from Flag of Samoa 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
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The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1200 × 600
Credit Original: Malietoa Tanumafili II and Tupua Tamasese Meaʻole Vector: See the file history below, for details.
From Flag of Samoa.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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