Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #012a87
- #dc171d
- #ffffff
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.
- 2 horizontal bands
The fly edge changes colour going down, the foot does not, and every change is a straight line right across.
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 crest consists of a pelican in front of a yellow sun, while the motto in Latin on a ribbon scroll under the escutcheon – Semper progrediens – means 'always progressing'.
Flag of Sint Maarten on Wikipedia
- coat of arms
The flag of Sint Maarten consists of a white triangle situated at the hoist charged with the constituent country's coat of arms, along with two horizontal bands of cherry red and navy blue.
Flag of Sint Maarten on Wikipedia
- writing
The crest consists of a pelican in front of a yellow sun, while the motto in Latin on a ribbon scroll under the escutcheon – Semper progrediens – means 'always progressing'.
Flag of Sint Maarten on Wikipedia
- shield
The crest consists of a pelican in front of a yellow sun, while the motto in Latin on a ribbon scroll under the escutcheon – Semper progrediens – means 'always progressing'.
Flag of Sint Maarten on Wikipedia
- bird
The crest consists of a pelican in front of a yellow sun, while the motto in Latin on a ribbon scroll under the escutcheon – Semper progrediens – means 'always progressing'.
Flag of Sint Maarten on Wikipedia
- building
The shield depicts a garland of yellow sage – the official flower of the territory – as well as the Constitutional Court of Sint Maarten in Philipsburg and (top right) the Dutch–French friendship monument delineating the boundary between the Dutch and French sections of the island.
Flag of Sint Maarten on Wikipedia
- flower
The shield depicts a garland of yellow sage – the official flower of the territory – as well as the Constitutional Court of Sint Maarten in Philipsburg and (top right) the Dutch–French friendship monument delineating the boundary between the Dutch and French sections of the island.
Flag of Sint Maarten on Wikipedia
- wreath
The shield depicts a garland of yellow sage – the official flower of the territory – as well as the Constitutional Court of Sint Maarten in Philipsburg and (top right) the Dutch–French friendship monument delineating the boundary between the Dutch and French sections of the island.
Flag of Sint Maarten on Wikipedia
What we know about it
A distinct coat of arms was accorded to Sint Maarten in November 1982, and in August of the following year a contest was held for a separate flag; on 13 June 1985 the government adopted the banner Roselle Richardson had designed. The Netherlands Antilles dissolved on 10 October 2010, and it became the only flag used in Sint Maarten, by then a constituent country of the Kingdom in its own right. The blue represents the sea and the sky, the red epitomises the blood of Sint Maarteners, and the shield carries the Constitutional Court in Philipsburg and the Dutch–French friendship monument that marks the boundary on the island.
Drafted from Flag of Sint Maarten 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 days
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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. Sint Maarten is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 675 × 450
Credit User:Shervinafshar, based on work of User:Washiucho. Earlier non-PD versions by User:SiBr4, User:Fry1989, and User:Andrwsc.
From Flag of Sint Maarten.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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