Flag of Easter Island
Locally Rapa Nui
What the flag looks like
A white field with a large red reimiro in the center: a crescent-shaped breastplate whose two upturned tips end in carved heads.
What it means
The reimiro is a wooden pectoral ornament once worn by the island's chiefs and nobles, and the heads at its tips represent the ariki, the chiefs.
How to remember it
Easter Island
is a big red smile on white: the reimiro breastplate, with a tiny head on each upturned tip.
Fun facts
- A reimiro flag was flown by the island's king in the 1880s; the modern version was first raised officially beside Chile's flag in 2006.
- The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen named it Easter Island because he arrived on Easter Sunday in 1722.
Easter Island at a glance
- Status
- Special territory of Chile
- Sovereign state
- Chile
- Capital
- Hanga Roa
- Region
- Special territory of Chile
- Population
- 7,750
- Area
- 164 km²
- Languages
- Spanish, Rapa Nui
- Currency
- Chilean peso ($)
- Flag adopted
- 2006