Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #c81010
- #ffffff
- #183070
- #f8d000
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.
- sun
The flag of Kiribati (buraki ni Kiribati) is red in the upper half with a gold frigatebird (Fregata minor, in Gilbertese: te eitei) flying over a gold rising sun (otintaai), and the lower half is blue with three horizontal wavy white stripes to represent the ocean and the three archipelagoes (Gilbert, Phoenix and Line Islands).
Flag of Kiribati on Wikipedia
- bird
The flag of Kiribati (buraki ni Kiribati) is red in the upper half with a gold frigatebird (Fregata minor, in Gilbertese: te eitei) flying over a gold rising sun (otintaai), and the lower half is blue with three horizontal wavy white stripes to represent the ocean and the three archipelagoes (Gilbert, Phoenix and Line Islands).
Flag of Kiribati on Wikipedia
What we know about it
The flag is an armorial banner: its design is the shield of the coat of arms, from the badge Sir Arthur Grimble designed in 1931 for the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, granted in 1937. A competition was held in the run-up to independence, and the College of Arms wanted the frigatebird and the sun enlarged and the waves narrowed; the locals insisted on the original design, and the flag was hoisted during the independence day celebrations in Tarawa on 12 July 1979. Its sun has 17 rays, for the 16 Gilbert Islands and Banaba, and the wavy stripes the ocean and the three archipelagoes.
Drafted from Flag of Kiribati 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. Kiribati is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 600 × 300
Credit User:Hanzlan
From Flag of Kiribati.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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