Capital

South Tarawa

Continent

Oceania

Flag adopted

1979

Designer

Not individually credited

Kiribati

Colors and meaning

• Red #CF142B

  The historic connection to the wider Gilbert Islands region

• White #FFFFFF

  The Pacific Ocean's waves

• Blue #003F87

  The Pacific Ocean

Symbolism and history

A golden frigatebird flies above a rising golden sun over a red field, with wavy blue-and-white bands below representing the Pacific Ocean, adopted at independence from Britain in 1979 and based on the territorial badge used since the 1930s.

No documented visual overlap

Kiribati’s design isn’t a close visual match for any other current national flag. A few more flags from Oceania, for browsing:

• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu
• Australia

Further reading: Flag of Kiribati on Wikipedia