Skip to content

Wiki Banderas
Open menu

Flag of Christmas Island

The flag of Christmas Island was adopted on 14 April 1986 but did not have official status until 2003.

Flag of Christmas Island
Learn to read it Test yourself

The flag, in figures

Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.

Proportions
1:22 wide for every 1 high. 49 flags in the catalogue share it.
Properties
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
Use
Civil and stateFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.
Adopted
198626 January 1986 · 40 years ago
Colours
  • green
  • blue
  • gold
  • white
Reference shades: the official one may vary slightly.
1234

Take a closer look

  1. The diagonally divided field

  2. 1

    The blue triangle

  3. 2

    The five stars

  4. 3

    The golden disc

  5. 4

    The golden bird

How it is described

The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.

Vexillological description

Paño de proporción 1:2 dividido por una diagonal descendente desde el asta, con cinco estrellas, un ave y un disco con el mapa de la isla.

División
tajado (diagonal descendente desde el asta): el triángulo inferior, junto al asta, de azur (azul), y el superior, junto al batiente, de sinople (verde).
Estrellas
cinco, de plata (blancas), sobre el azul; forman la Cruz del Sur.
Ave
una subespecie de rabijunco menor propia de la isla, de oro (amarilla), en vuelo sobre el verde.
Disco
de oro (amarillo), centrado en el paño, con la silueta de la isla de sinople (verde).

What it carries

Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.

The full story

How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.

How it came about

How it has changed

What it means

Fun facts

Localisation

Country facts

Where it is and what borders it.

Capital
Flying Fish Cove
Area
135 km²
Country
Territory of Christmas Island
Continent
Oceania
Subregion
Australia and New Zealand
Independent state
No
UN member
No
ISO code
CXR · CX

How much have you learnt?

Test what you have read about the flag of Christmas Island.

  1. 1. Which one is the flag of Christmas Island?

  2. 2. Which of these elements appears on the flag?

  3. 3. What are the proportions (height:width) of the flag?

  4. 4. In which year was the current flag adopted?

Sources

Text based on the article “Bandera de la Isla de Navidad” from the Spanish Wikipedia, published under the licence CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sources consulted:

Credits

Flag image: Tony Couch, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.

More flags

Accessibility preferences

Accessibility statement

Quick profiles

Text and reading

Text size
Default
Line height
Default
Letter spacing
Default
Word spacing
Default

Colour

Motion and orientation

Cursor