United States Virgin Islands
Virgin Islands of the United States
- Region
- Caribbean
- Wide × tall
- 1.50 : 1
- Code
- VI
Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #ffffff
- #f4c53d
- #162667
Other flags with white, blue or orange or all of white, blue and orange 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.
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.
- coat of arms
It consists of a simplified version of the coat of arms of the United States between the letters V and I (for 'Virgin Islands').
Flag of the United States Virgin Islands on Wikipedia
- bird
The yellow-colored eagle holds a sprig of laurel in one talon, which symbolizes victory, and three blue arrows in the other (unlike the thirteen arrows in the US coat of arms), which represent the three major islands that make up the U.S.
Flag of the United States Virgin Islands on Wikipedia
- eagle
The yellow-colored eagle holds a sprig of laurel in one talon, which symbolizes victory, and three blue arrows in the other (unlike the thirteen arrows in the US coat of arms), which represent the three major islands that make up the U.S.
Flag of the United States Virgin Islands on Wikipedia
- leaf
The yellow-colored eagle holds a sprig of laurel in one talon, which symbolizes victory, and three blue arrows in the other (unlike the thirteen arrows in the US coat of arms), which represent the three major islands that make up the U.S.
Flag of the United States Virgin Islands on Wikipedia
- spear
The yellow-colored eagle holds a sprig of laurel in one talon, which symbolizes victory, and three blue arrows in the other (unlike the thirteen arrows in the US coat of arms), which represent the three major islands that make up the U.S.
Flag of the United States Virgin Islands on Wikipedia
What we know about it
It began with the administration of Rear Admiral Sumner Ely Wetmore Kittelle, sworn in as governor on April 26, 1921, who asked for suggestions from Mr. White, captain of the Grebe, and the cartoonist Percival Wilson Sparks; Sparks drew a design on paper, transferred it onto heavy cotton material, and asked his wife Grace and her sister Blanche Joseph to embroider it. The flag was adopted on May 17, 1921. In one talon the eagle holds a sprig of laurel, symbolizing victory, and in the other three arrows (unlike the thirteen in the US coat of arms) for Saint Croix, Saint Thomas and Saint John.
Drafted from Flag of the United States Virgin 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.
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. United States Virgin Islands is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1275 × 850
Credit Percival Wilson Sparks. sparksfamilyassn.org. Retrieved on 2026-05-26.
From Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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