- Capital
- Yaren District
- Continent
- Oceania
- Flag adopted
- 1968(r1)
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Nauru
What the source says
Referenced, awaiting primary-source reviewAdopted on 31 January 1968. The blue signifies the Pacific Ocean; the narrow gold stripe represents the Equator [and] signifies the location of the island one degree south of the Equator. Nauru itself is symbolised by a white 12-pointed star; the twelve points on the star represent the island's twelve original tribes.
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 single narrow yellow horizontal line, representing the Equator, crosses a blue field beneath a twelve-pointed white star, positioned to show Nauru's location one degree south of the Equator; the twelve points represent the island's twelve original tribes.
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”.
- Cabo Verde78
the same horizontal band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.
- Cambodia70
the same horizontal band layout; similar colours in a different arrangement.
- New Zealand69
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Australia66
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Liechtenstein65
the same horizontal band layout; similar colours in a different arrangement.
- Cuba63
the same horizontal band layout; 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 Nauru (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 Nauru on Wikipedia