Flag of Mie
Officially Mie Prefecture
Locally Mie-ken · 三重県
What the flag looks like
A white emblem on a green field: the hiragana み (mi) drawn as an arrow pointing up, with a ring at its foot.
What it means
み is the first sound of Mie; the arrow stands for progress and the ring for the pearls farmed in Ago Bay.
How to remember it
Mie's
white み (mi) shoots up like an arrow from an Ago Bay pearl on bright green; Miyagi's
み curls into leaves on dark green.
Fun facts
- The Ise Grand Shrine, Shinto's holiest site, is in Mie.
- Iga, in Mie, is famous as a home of the ninja.
Mie at a glance
- Type
- Prefecture (ken)
- Island
- Honshū
- Capital
- Tsu
- Region
- Kansai
- Population
- 1.7 million
- Area
- 5,774 km²
- Languages
- Japanese
- Currency
- Japanese yen (¥)
- Flag adopted
- 1964
Flags often confused with Mie
- Miyagi: Miyagi and Mie both draw the hiragana み (mi) in white on green. Miyagi's curls into three bush-clover leaves on dark green; Mie's is an arrow pointing up from a ring on bright green.