Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #000000
- #c8102e
- #ffcd00
Other flags with red, yellow or black or all of red, yellow and black 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 diagonal division
One straight edge crosses the whole flag at an angle, with one colour all the way down one side of it and another all the way down the other.
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 upper triangle is red with a Raggiana bird-of-paradise in gold yellow and the lower triangle is black with five white stars forming the shape of the Southern Cross.
Flag of Papua New Guinea on Wikipedia
- bird
In the hoist, it depicts the Southern Cross; in the fly, a Raggiana bird-of-paradise is silhouetted.
Flag of Papua New Guinea on Wikipedia
What we know about it
After a nationwide design competition in early 1971 a redesign by the 15-year old schoolgirl Susan Karike was chosen, and the flag was adopted on 1 July 1971; before it, the Australian administration had proposed a vertical tricolour designed by Hal Holman, which had a mainly negative reception as a mechanically contrived outcome. Many Papua New Guinean tribes have long held red and black as traditional colours; the bird of paradise is a symbol of tribal culture, its soaring position represents the nation's emergence, and the Southern Cross signifies their relationship with other nearby countries in the southern hemisphere.
Drafted from Flag of Papua New Guinea 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. Papua New Guinea is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 800 × 600
Credit User:Nightstallion
From Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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