Flag of Saint Lucia
What the flag looks like
A cerulean blue field with a central emblem of a gold triangle set in front of a larger black triangle edged in white.
What it means
Blue represents the sky and the surrounding sea, gold the sunshine, and black and white the harmony of the island's peoples; the triangles evoke the twin Pitons volcanic peaks.
How to remember it
Saint Lucia
shows its twin Pitons as a gold triangle in front of a white-edged black one on plain sky blue.
Fun facts
- The flag was designed by Saint Lucian artist Dunstan St Omer.
- Saint Lucia has produced two Nobel laureates: economist Sir Arthur Lewis (1979) and poet Derek Walcott (1992).
- The island is named after Saint Lucy of Syracuse, and its national day, 13 December, is her feast day.
Saint Lucia at a glance
- Capital
- Castries
- Region
- Caribbean
- Population
- 179,744
- Area
- 616 km²
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- Eastern Caribbean dollar ($)
- Flag adopted
- 1967