Flag of Papua New Guinea
Its colour palette includes red, black, white, and yellow.
Current flag
Flag emoji 🇵🇬
Papua New Guinea
Flag facts
- Adopted
- 1971
Flag design
- Layout
- Complex layout
- Symbols
- Star – In the field and Animal – In the field
- Colours
- Red, black, white, and yellow
Sources
What does the flag of Papua New Guinea mean?
Papua New Guinea's red-black diagonal flag shows a golden bird-of-paradise and the Southern Cross; schoolgirl Susan Karike designed it.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Papua New Guinea
- Continent
- Oceania
- Capital
- Port Moresby
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- PG
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- PNG
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 598
- Top-level domain
- .pg
- Area
- 462,840 km²
- Population
- 10,762,817 (2025)
- Currency
- PGK
- Calling code
- +675
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Papua New Guinea (1884–)
Images are ordered by the years listed in the collection. A listed year may not be the flag’s official adoption year.
About historical flags
Vexilla's historical flag collection includes former flags associated with present-day countries and territories, as well as flags of states, empires, and other authorities that historically governed them.
A flag's inclusion in a country's historical collection does not necessarily mean that the country was independent at the time or that the flag was its own national flag.
The years shown are based on historical records in the dataset and do not always indicate the date of official adoption. The collection is not exhaustive, and historical usage, territorial coverage, and interpretations may vary.
