Geuest

Melanesia

Vanuatu

Two horizontal bands of red over green divided by a black isosceles triangle at the hoist, edged in yellow, with a yellow Y-shape and a boar’s tusk enclosing two crossed namele leaves. It was adopted at independence in 1980.

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Flag of Vanuatu

Adopted

1980

Proportion

19:36

Colours

4

Colours & their meaning

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Red

Represents the blood of boars and of people.

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Green

Represents the richness of the islands.

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Black

Represents the Melanesian people.

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Yellow

Represents the light of the Gospel and the shape of the islands in the Pacific.

Symbols & emblems

Did you know?

Vanuatu’s unusual official ratio of 19:36 is rare among national flags.