Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #c10000
- #ffffff
Other flags with red or white or all of red and white 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 national flag of Tonga consists of a red field with a white canton charged with a red couped cross.
Flag of Tonga on Wikipedia
What we know about it
King George Tupou I sought a flag that would represent Christianity and worked on it with Shirley Waldemar Baker, later Prime Minister of Tonga and then a member of the United Kingdom's Tongan mission, on a flag, a coat of arms and a national anthem; Whitney Smith names Prince Uelingatoni Ngu Tupoumalohi as the chief designer. The design was first used in 1866, and the constitution proclaimed on 4 November 1875 codified it; under Article 47 it can never be altered. The couped cross alludes to Christianity, practised by approximately 97% of the population, while the white epitomizes purity and the red evokes the blood of Jesus Christ.
Drafted from Flag of Tonga 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. Tonga is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 960 × 480
Credit Uelingatoni Ngu Tupoumalohi
From Flag of Tonga.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
