- Capital
- Apia
- Continent
- Oceania
- Flag adopted
- 1949
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Samoa
Colors and meaning
Red #CE1126
Courage
Blue #002B7F
Freedom
Symbolism and history
Five white stars of the Southern Cross sit on a blue canton beside a plain red field, adopted in 1949 ahead of independence from New Zealand administration, joining the wider family of Pacific flags that reference the same constellation.
Closest-looking flags
Australia
Shares its Southern Cross motif with Australia's, New Zealand's and Papua New Guinea's flags, each rendering the constellation with a different number of stars and background color.
New Zealand
Shares its Southern Cross motif with Australia's, New Zealand's and Papua New Guinea's flags, each rendering the constellation with a different number of stars and background color.
Papua New Guinea
Shares its Southern Cross motif with Australia's, New Zealand's and Papua New Guinea's flags, each rendering the constellation with a different number of stars and background color.
Further reading: Flag of Samoa on Wikipedia
