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Flag of Samoa
Its colour palette includes red, blue, and white.
Current flag
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Samoa
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 1:2 height: width
- Adopted
- 1949
Flag design
- Layout
- Plain field
- Symbols
- Star – Canton
- Colours
- Red, blue, and white
What does the flag of Samoa mean?
Samoa's red field and blue canton carry five white stars of the Southern Cross, marking its southern Pacific setting.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Samoa
- Continent
- Oceania
- Capital
- Apia
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- WS
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- WSM
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 882
- Top-level domain
- .ws
- Area
- 2,944 km²
- Population
- 219,306 (2025)
- Currency
- WST
- Calling code
- +685
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Samoa (1858–)
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.