Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #215b33
- #0051ba
- #fcd116
- #ffffff
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 flag of Solomon Islands consists of a thin yellow diagonal stripe from the lower hoist-side corner, with a blue upper triangle and green lower triangle, and the canton charged with five white stars.
Flag of Solomon Islands on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted on 18 November 1977, eight months before independence, it replaced the British Blue Ensign defaced with the arms of the protectorate. The five stars, in three offset rows in the shape of the letter X, were meant at first for the five provinces of the country at independence (Central, Western, Eastern, Malaita and Honiara Capital) and the number of stars has stayed as it was even though new provinces have since been created. Blue evokes the water, in rivers, rain and the Pacific Ocean; green alludes to the land and what grows on it; yellow epitomises the sun and its rays separating land and ocean.
Drafted from Flag of Solomon Islands 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. Solomon Islands is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1200 × 600
Credit User:SKopp
From Flag of the Solomon Islands.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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