Flag of Grenada
Grenada’s flag has a red border carrying six gold stars, and inside it gold and green triangles meeting at a red disc with a seventh gold star, with a nutmeg on the green by the pole. The government says the seven stars are the seven parishes, the nutmeg Grenada’s name as the Isle of Spice, red the courage and vitality of the people, gold wisdom and warmth, and green the fertile land.
How to read it
Grenada adopted the flag on 7 February 1974, the day it became independent of the United Kingdom, and the government credits the design to Anthony C. George of Soubise, in the parish of St Andrew. The government gives two proportions: five to three (length to height) for a flag flown on land, and two to one at sea. Norway’s Store norske leksikon describes the field inside the red border as divided diagonally into four triangles, gold at the top and bottom and green by the pole and at the fly. On the border are three gold five-pointed stars at the top and three at the bottom; in the centre is a red disc with a larger gold star, and in the triangle by the pole a gold nutmeg.
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What the stars and the nutmeg mean
The government gives the seven gold stars as the seven parishes and the hopes, aspirations and ideals on which the nation was founded. The parishes come back on the coat of arms, whose crest is seven roses, one for each. Dominica’s flag counts its parishes the same way, with a ring of ten stars.
The nutmeg is Grenada’s reputation as the Isle of Spice and its traditional link with the economy. The encyclopedia also notes that the nutmeg was already on the flag used from 1967 to 1974, when Grenada was one of the West Indies Associated States, still dependent on Britain, and that nutmeg is one of the country’s main exports.
What the colours mean
In the government’s words, red is the fervour of the people, their courage and vitality and “their burning aspiration to be free”, and the red border is their dedication to keeping harmony and unity of spirit. Gold is wisdom, and also the sun, “their islands in the sun”, and the warmth and friendliness of the people. Green is the fertility of the land, its vegetation and the island’s agriculture.
Two shapes, on land and at sea
The government sets the flag flown on land at five units long for every three high, and the flag flown at sea at two to one, a longer flag with the same design. The encyclopedia gives the land flag as 3:5.
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- The same shape in Asian flagsFlag of the PhilippinesThe Philippine flag has a blue stripe over a red one and a white equilateral triangle at the pole, holding a golden sun with eight rays and a golden five-pointed star in each corner. The flag law fixes the design without a meaning; the meaning usually given, as in the Daily Tribune and Store norske leksikon, is the sun’s eight rays for the first eight provinces to rise against Spanish rule and the three stars for Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao.
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Sources
- National Symbols (Government of Grenada), Government of Grenada, “National Symbols”, gov.gd, Government of Grenada, National Flag; Coat of Arms
- Grenadas flagg og våpen (Store norske leksikon), Lars Roede, “Grenadas flagg og våpen”, Store norske leksikon, Store norske leksikon, article text
- National Flag (Government of Dominica), Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica, “National Flag”, National Symbols, dominica.gov.dm, Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica, National Flag of Dominica
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