Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- Region
- Western Africa
- Wide × tall
- 2.00 : 1
- Code
- SH
Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #012169
- #c8102e
- #ffffff
Other flags with red, white or blue or all of red, white and blue 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 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 we know about it
Saint Helena was accorded its own badge in 1874, showing the territory's rocky coastline and an East Indiaman; a redesign in 1984 added the Saint Helena plover to the upper portion, publicised in the island's government gazette that January; the Admiralty granted authorisation a decade later, in 1994. The bird, popularly referred to by Saint Helenians as the wirebird, is the last species of bird endemic to the island and its official bird; and the ship below it, a three-masted sailing ship flying the Cross of Saint George, is a symbol of the Kingdom of England. The flag also served Tristan da Cunha, and Ascension Island unofficially, until those adopted their own in 2002 and 2013.
Drafted from Flag of Saint Helena 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.
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. Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1200 × 600
Credit Patricia Fidi
From Flag of Saint Helena.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
