Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #00205b
- #ffffff
- #bf0a30
Other flags with red, white or blue or all of red, white and blue 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 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.
- bird
The flag of American Samoa consists of a red-edged white triangle pointing towards the hoist charged with a bald eagle clutching a war club and fly-whisk, with dark blue upper and lower triangles.
Flag of American Samoa on Wikipedia
- eagle
The flag of American Samoa consists of a red-edged white triangle pointing towards the hoist charged with a bald eagle clutching a war club and fly-whisk, with dark blue upper and lower triangles.
Flag of American Samoa on Wikipedia
- other weapon
The flag of American Samoa consists of a red-edged white triangle pointing towards the hoist charged with a bald eagle clutching a war club and fly-whisk, with dark blue upper and lower triangles.
Flag of American Samoa on Wikipedia
What we know about it
April 17, 1960 was the official adoption, sixty years to the day since the U.S. first raised the American flag over Samoa, and the flag went up for the first time on Flag Day, that same date; in the previous year the design had won the flag design competition at Samoana High School, entered by the high school student Fareti Sotoa, whose draft went to the U.S. Army's Institute of Heraldry. Its designer, Uinifareti Rapi Sotoa, gives the white section as the Manuʻa District, the two blue parts as the Eastern District and the Western District of Tutuila Island, and the red in the middle as the ocean between them.
Drafted from Flag of American 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.
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. American Samoa is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1000 × 500
Credit by Tobias Jakobs
From Flag of American Samoa.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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