Flag of Greenland
Locally Kalaallit Nunaat
What the flag looks like
Two equal horizontal bands of white over red, with a disc set towards the hoist whose colors are reversed: red in the white half and white in the red half.
What it means
The white band is the ice sheet and the red band the ocean; the red half-disc is the sun sinking into the sea, and the white half-disc is icebergs and pack ice.
How to remember it
Greenland
is a midnight sun half-sunk in the sea: a white-over-red flag like Poland's
, but with a two-tone disc sitting near the pole.
Fun facts
- It is the only flag in the Nordic countries and their territories without a Nordic cross.
- Designed by Thue Christiansen, it is called Erfalasorput, "our flag", in Greenlandic.
Greenland at a glance
- Status
- Autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark
- Sovereign state
- Denmark
- Capital
- Nuuk
- Region
- Autonomous territory of Denmark
- Population
- 56,699
- Area
- 2,166,086 km²
- Languages
- Greenlandic, Danish
- Currency
- Danish krone (kr)
- Flag adopted
- 1985
Flags often confused with Greenland
- Poland: Greenland and Poland are both white over red. Poland's flag is plain; Greenland has a disc near the hoist with its colors reversed, red on white and white on red.