Flag of French Polynesia

Flag of French Polynesia

Flag of French Polynesia
Use	Civil and state flag
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	23 November 1984; 37 years ago (1984-11-23)
Flag of the French Republic
Name	Le Tricolore
Use	National flag, civil and state ensign
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	15 February 1794

Assembly of French Polynesia with flags of French Polynesia and France.

The flag of French Polynesia (French: drapeau de la Polynésie française) is the civil and state flag of the French overseas country French Polynesia. It was adopted in 1984.^[1]

Description[]

Two red horizontal bands encase a wide white band in a 1:2:1 ratio; centered on the white band is the coat of arms of French Polynesia as a 0.43m diameter disk with a blue and white wave pattern depicting the sea on the lower half and a gold and white ray pattern depicting the sun on the upper half; a Polynesian canoe rides on the wave pattern; the canoe has a crew of five represented by five stars that symbolize the five island groups; red and white are traditional Polynesian colors.

All vessels registered in French Polynesia have to fly the French flag, even for the small ships sailing between the islands, as there is no official French Polynesian civil or state ensign.

Flags of component archipelagos[]

Flags of the Society Islands[]

Leeward Islands[]

Windward Islands[]

Flags of the Tuamotu Archipelago[]

Flags of the Austral Islands[]

See also[]

• Flag of France
• Coat of arms of French Polynesia

References[]

External links[]

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