Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #fedd00
- #012169
- #ffffff
- #c8102e
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.
- star
It consists of the Union Jack in the upper left corner with a star in the middle of the Union Jack and four stars forming a diamond around it.
Flag of Niue on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Patricia Rex, the wife of the then-Premier Robert Rex, designed the flag, which was adopted on 15 October 1975. In the Union Jack is the protection the United Kingdom granted after the Kings and Chiefs of Niue petitioned for it in 1900; the yellow field is for Niue's bright sunshine, and for the warm feelings of the Niuean people towards New Zealand, whose administration began in 1901 and which the four small stars of the Southern Cross also represent; the blue disc with its larger star is the deep blue sea surrounding the island.
Drafted from Flag of Niue 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. Niue is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 600 × 300
Credit SKopp
From Flag of Niue.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
