Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #046a38
- #000000
- #ffffff
- #ffcd00
- #d50032
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.
- star
The ten green five-pointed stars stand for the country's ten parishes: (St Andrew, St David, St George, St John, St Joseph, St Luke, St Mark, St Patrick, St Paul, and St Peter), while the red disc stands for justice.
Flag of Dominica on Wikipedia
- cross
The cross represents the Trinity and Christianity, with its three colours symbolising the natives, the fertile soil, and the pure water.
Flag of Dominica on Wikipedia
- bird
This parrot, endemic to Dominica, is an endangered species with a population of only 250–350 individuals.
Flag of Dominica on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Alwin Bully, a playwright, designed the flag in early 1978 as the country prepared for independence; it was adopted on 3 November 1978, with small changes made in 1981, 1988 and 1990. The sisserou parrot on it is the national bird emblem, endemic to Dominica and endangered, with a population of only 250–350 individuals; it appears on the coat of arms as well, granted on 21 July 1961. The ten stars stand for the country's ten parishes, the cross for the Trinity and Christianity, and the disc for justice.
Drafted from Flag of Dominica 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. Dominica is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1200 × 600
Credit Alwin Bully
From Flag of Dominica.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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