Flag of Sint Eustatius
What the flag looks like
Four blue panels in the corners, each outlined in red, surround a white diamond in the center that holds a green silhouette of the island beneath a gold star.
What it means
Blue is the surrounding sea, red the flamboyant tree, green the island with its Quill volcano, white its legendary waterfall, and the gold star unity.
How to remember it
Sint Eustatius
puts a green map of the island inside its white diamond, where neighbouring Saba
has only a star.
Fun facts
- Designed by Zuwena Suares, the flag was adopted in 2004 and first flown on Statia Day, 16 November.
- On 16 November 1776 the island's fort fired a salute to an American ship, one of the first foreign acknowledgements of the United States.
Sint Eustatius at a glance
- Status
- Special municipality of the Netherlands
- Sovereign state
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Capital
- Oranjestad
- Region
- Special municipality of the Netherlands
- Population
- 3,270
- Area
- 21 km²
- Languages
- Dutch, English
- Currency
- United States dollar ($)
- Flag adopted
- 2004
Flags often confused with Sint Eustatius
- Saba: Saba and Sint Eustatius are neighbouring Dutch islands whose flags both have a white diamond with a gold star. Saba's corners are plain red and blue triangles; Sint Eustatius has blue panels outlined in red and a green island map in the diamond.