Flag of the Solomon Islands
What the flag looks like
Divided diagonally from lower hoist to upper fly by a thin yellow stripe, with a blue upper hoist triangle containing five white five-pointed stars arranged in an X, and a green lower fly triangle.
What it means
Blue represents the water, green the land and yellow the sunshine; the five stars originally stood for the country's five main island districts.
How to remember it
Five white stars in an X on a blue triangle, then a thin yellow diagonal and green below; Tanzania's
diagonal is a wide black band edged in yellow.
Fun facts
- Guadalcanal, home of the capital Honiara, was the scene of a major Second World War campaign in 1942–43.
- The country is made up of nearly a thousand islands spread over about 1,500 km of ocean.
Solomon Islands at a glance
- Capital
- Honiara
- Region
- Melanesia
- Population
- 819,198
- Area
- 28,896 km²
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- Solomon Islands dollar ($)
- Flag adopted
- 1977
Flags often confused with the Solomon Islands
- Tanzania: Solomon Islands and Tanzania both have a diagonal from lower hoist to upper fly with blue and green. Solomon Islands has blue above, a thin yellow stripe and white stars; Tanzania has green above and a wide black band.
- Namibia: Namibia and Solomon Islands both split diagonally into blue above and green below. Namibia has a wide red band and a gold sun; Solomon Islands has a thin yellow stripe and five white stars.