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- Capital
- Basseterre
- Continent
- North America
- Flag adopted
- 1983
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Colors and meaning
Black #000000
The African heritage of the population
Yellow #FCD116
Sunshine
Green #009E49
The islands' fertile vegetation
Red #CE1126
The historic struggle against slavery and colonialism
Symbolism and history
A yellow-bordered black diagonal band bearing two white stars, one for each island of the federation, crosses a green-red diagonal split, adopted at independence from Britain in 1983.
No documented visual overlap
Saint Kitts and Nevis’s design isn’t a close visual match for any other current national flag. A few more flags from North America, for browsing:
Further reading: Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis on Wikipedia