Flag of Dominica

Facts, history and meaning about the flag of Dominica

Dominica is located in North America.

The official ISO 3166 code for Dominica is:

Dominica's flag was adopted on November 3, 1978. However, the color scheme was changed into the current version in 1981. In other words, from being yellow, white and black in this particular order, the stars were also updated with a yellow border. And in 1988, the parrot changed into its current appearance as well.

The green in the flag stands for the rich vegetation of the country, the cross stands for Christianity and the three stripes in the cross represent the trinity. The yellow color of the cross represents the Caribbean natives, the black color tells us that the majority of the population comes from Africa and the white color is a symbol of the nation's rivers and waterfalls. The red circle in the center of the flag stands for socialism, the bird is the Imperial parrot, and finally the ten stars around the parrot refer to the ten parishes of Dominica.

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