Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #009543
- #d21034
- #000000
- #fdce12
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- 5 horizontal bands
The fly edge changes colour going down, the foot does not, and every change is a straight line right across.
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.
- other animal
The emblem in the black is a boar's tusk—the symbol of customs and tradition but also prosperity.
Flag of Vanuatu on Wikipedia
- leaf
It is worn as a pendant on the islands—along with two leaves of the local namele tree.
Flag of Vanuatu on Wikipedia
What we know about it
In 1977 the local artist Kalontas Malon designed a flag of almost the same colours and symbolism which the Vanua'aku Pati adopted; when that party led the New Hebrides to independence in 1980, its colours became the basis for the national flag, and a parliamentary committee chose the final design from submissions by local artists. It was adopted on 18 February 1980, and Independence Day fell on 30 July. Green is the richness of the islands, red the blood which unites humanity, black the Melanesian ni-Vanuatu people; Prime Minister Father Walter Lini asked for the fimbriations that make the black stand out, and the Y-shape is the shape of the islands on the map and the light of the gospel.
Drafted from Flag of Vanuatu 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. Vanuatu is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit Kalontas Mahlon
From Flag of Vanuatu (official).svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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