Capital

Yaren District

Continent

Oceania

Flag adopted

1968

Designer

Not individually credited

Nauru

Colors and meaning

• Blue #002B7F

  The Pacific Ocean surrounding the island

• Yellow #FFC61E

  The equator, which runs just north of Nauru

• White #FFFFFF

  Phosphate, the mineral that has historically defined the island's economy

Symbolism and history

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 just south of the equator; the twelve points represent the island's twelve original tribes.

No documented visual overlap

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

• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Marshall Islands

Further reading: Flag of Nauru on Wikipedia