- Capital
- Roseau
- Continent
- North America
- Flag adopted
- 1978(r1)
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Dominica
What the source says
Referenced, awaiting primary-source reviewAdopted on 3 November 1978. The green field represents the lush vegetation of the island. The cross represents the Trinity and Christianity, with its three colours symbolising the natives, the fertile soil, and the pure water. The red disc stands for justice. It is one of the few flags of sovereign states to contain purple.
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
Symbolism and history(r1)
A purple Sisserou parrot, the national bird, centers a green field crossed by a yellow-black-white cross that represents the Trinity; it is one of the few flags of sovereign states to contain purple.
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”.
- Guyana81
near-identical colour proportions.
- Brazil75
the same colours in similar amounts; both carry a central emblem.
- Bangladesh72
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Zimbabwe70
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Saint Kitts and Nevis65
similar colours in a different arrangement.
- Guinea-Bissau62
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 Dominica (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 Dominica on Wikipedia