- Capital
- Basseterre
- Continent
- North America
- Flag adopted
- 1983(r1)
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Saint Kitts and Nevis
What the source says
Referenced, awaiting primary-source reviewAdopted September 19, 1983. Green [is] the country's fertile land; red the fight against slavery and colonialism; yellow stripes the sunshine the islands enjoy all year round; black the people's African origins; the two white stars [are] the two islands as well as hope and liberty.
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 yellow-bordered black diagonal band bearing two white stars, for the two islands and for hope and liberty, crosses a green-red diagonal split, adopted at independence from Britain in 1983.
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 Guinea77
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Jamaica76
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Tanzania76
the same colours in similar amounts.
- United Arab Emirates76
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Antigua and Barbuda74
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Zimbabwe73
the same colours in similar amounts.
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 Saint Kitts and Nevis (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 Saint Kitts and Nevis on Wikipedia