- Capital
- St. George's
- Continent
- North America
- Flag adopted
- 1974(r1)
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Grenada
What the source says
Referenced, awaiting primary-source reviewHoisted at midnight on 7 February 1974. Red represents harmony, unity, courage, and vitality; gold evokes the sun [and] the warmth and wisdom of Grenadians; green epitomises the islands' vegetation and agriculture. The yellow stars on the red border symbolise the country's parishes. The nutmeg alludes to one of the primary agricultural exports of the islands.
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)
Six gold stars ring a red border, with a seventh on a red disc at the center, the stars representing Grenada's parishes; the field is split into green and gold triangles, and a stylized nutmeg pod on the hoist-side green triangle alludes to one of the islands' primary agricultural exports.
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”.
- North Macedonia80
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Namibia74
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Guinea-Bissau73
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Bhutan69
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Montenegro68
similar colours in a different arrangement.
- Cameroon67
near-identical colour proportions.
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 Grenada (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 Grenada on Wikipedia