- Capital
- St. John's
- Continent
- North America
- Flag adopted
- 1967(r1)
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Antigua and Barbuda
What the source says
Referenced, awaiting primary-source reviewAdopted 27 February 1967. Black stands for the African ancestry of the people; blue for hope; red for the energy or life of the people; the gold sun symbolises the dawning of a new era. The V-shape is the symbol of victory.
Referenced, not verified: a secondary work states this, and the document that constitutes the flag has not been read for this entry. What the marks mean.
Colors and meaning
White(r1) #FFFFFF
Symbolism and history(r1)
A rising golden sun, symbolising the dawning of a new era, over red, black and blue bands forms a V shape (the symbol of victory) inside a red-bordered triangle, adopted in 1967.
Most similar flags
The 6 closest of the 194 other national flags, ranked by a similarity index computed from the flag images themselves. The number is that index, 0–100 — not a claim that the two flags are “X% identical”.
- Papua New Guinea78
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Saint Kitts and Nevis74
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Albania72
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Denmark71
similar colours in a different arrangement.
- Norway71
similar colours in a different arrangement.
- Tunisia71
similar colours in a different arrangement.
Computed at build time: each flag is rasterised to 64x48, and the score is 0.55 × colour overlap + 0.45 × structure. A different weighting would rank these differently. How the index works.
References — not verification
(r1) Referenced to Flag of Antigua and Barbuda (Wikipedia (English)) on 2026-07-17. States the adoption year, which colors the flag has, what the colors mean and the symbolism and history on this page. The passage it states them in is quoted at the top of this entry.
Further reading: Flag of Antigua and Barbuda on Wikipedia