Capital

Honiara

Continent

Oceania

Flag adopted

1977

Designer

Not individually credited

Solomon Islands

Colors and meaning

• Green #215B33

  The forests covering much of the islands

• Yellow #FFCC00

  Sunshine

• Blue #0051A5

  Water, rivers, rain and the Pacific Ocean

Symbolism and history

A thin yellow diagonal band divides a blue upper triangle, scattered with five white stars for the country's five main island groups, from a green lower triangle, adopted at independence from Britain in 1977.

No documented visual overlap

Solomon Islands’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 Solomon Islands on Wikipedia