Buy Vanuatu Republic Flag

VANUATU REPUBLIC FLAG
HOME

Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad Republic
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea North
Korea South
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho

Buy Country Flag: Vanuatu Republic

Show your patriotic or friendly spirit. Buy a flag of Vanuatu Republic online. On International-Flags.net you can buy flag that exactly reproduces original, with bright colours and all details. You don't have to spent much money - our prices are among the best. Order a flag of Vanuatu Republic and save your time and money!

Republic of Vanuatu, Republique de Vanuatu, Ripablik blong Vanuatu, formerly New Hebrides

Flag adopted 18th February 1980, coat-of-arms adopted 30th July 1980

Description
At the British Columbia 1994 Commonwealth Games page I read:

"crossed leaves of the namele fern (peace) are within a boar's tusk (wealth and prosperity)on a black triangular field along the hoist; red and green are the other colours"
The boar's tusk is a symbol of prosperity because (1) pigs are wealth (2) in the latter stages of getting the tusk to grow in a spiral the pig has to be hand fed, and you need status and wealth to have both the pig feeder and the food which are necessary.

Stuart Park, 4 March 1996

The boar's tusk is apparently used as a pendant by the islanders. They remove the boar's upper tusks, which causes the lower tusks to grow in a circle (from National Geographic, December 1970).

Nathan Augustine, 4 March 1996

Origin
"After the anglophone Vanuaaku Party led the country to independence as Vanuatu in 1980, the colours of the party flag - red, green, black and yellow - were adopted as the basis for the design of a new national flag. The final design was chosen a few months before independence by a parliamentary committee from designs submitted by local artists."
Symbolism of the colours
"The yellow symbolizes sunshine [peace and enlightment brought by Christianism, fide Talocci]; the green the richness of the islands [all the islands of the archipelago, fide Talocci]. The red is symbolic of blood [blood of sacrified boars, power of traditions, and mens' blood, fide Talocci], and the black is for the Melanesian people [not explained by Talocci]. The Prime Minister requested the inclusion of yellow and black fimbriations to give more prominence to the colour representing the people. The yellow Y-shape denotes the pattern of the islands in the Pacific Ocean." Approximate specifications are (Album des Pavillons 1990):
Red: Pantone 186c ; C0 - M90 - Y80 - K5
Yellow: Pantone 116c ; C0 - M10 - Y95 - K0
Green: Pantone 347c ; C100 - M0 - Y80 - K10
Emblem
"A boar's tusk - the symbol of prosperity worn as a pendant on the islands - crossed by two leaves of the local fern "namele". The leaves are a token of peace, and their 39 fronds represent the 39 members of Vanuatu's legislative assembly." [This description is botanically incorrect, ferns do not have leaves but fronds, therefore it should be: "the fronds are a token of peace, and their 39 divisions represent the 39 members of Vanuatu's legislative assembly."]
Proportions
DK Pocket Book 1997 says 11:18, and Album des Pavillons 1990 3:5, that is 0.6111.... vs. 0.6.
Sources: DK Pocket Book 1997 and Talocci 1993.

Ivan Sache, 16 July 1999

The stripes of the Vanuatu flag are wrong. The official sizes of the widths in the fly are red = 39, black = 6, yellow = 5, black = 6, green = 39. The yellow stripe is narrower than the black. [For comparison, Ivan Sache's image above has proportions 41.3 : 4 : 4.3 : 4 : 41.3]

Ralf Stelter, 17 July 1999

Symbolism of the colours:

Yellow: Christianity
Red: The blood of the sacrificial pigs, the strength of tradition and the unity of peoples
Green: The islands
Source: Talocci 1994.

Marcus Wendel, 5 September 1999

The image of the Vanuatu flag in Album des Pavillons 2000 shows the crosspoint of the 'Y' clearly offset towards the hoist, however the dimensions to its left and right say '35:35', as if it were centred. The image in FOTW shows it nearer —but still quite not exactly on— the middle of the flag (172:360 = 0.478). Are there any official (or usual) specifications for the Vanuatu flag?

Santiago Dotor, 9 February 2001

Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali Republic
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger Republic
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Senegal Republic
Seychelles Islands
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
St Lucia
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga Islands
Trinidad And Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu Republic
Venezuela
Vietnam
Western Samoa
Yemen Republic
Yugoslavia
Zaire
Zambia
Zimbabwe