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The flag of Samoa
The flag of Samoa was adopted on February 24, 1949.
The flag of Samoa consists of a red field with a blue rectangle in the
canton. The blue rectangle bears the Southern Cross Constellation:
four large white stars and one smaller star.
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Background:
New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the
outbreak of World War I in 1914.
The flag of Samoa is composed of red with a blue rectangle in the
upper hoist-side quadrant bearing five white five-pointed stars
representing the Southern Cross constellation.
dispositions among themselves as in the Flag of Samoa; one half of
the upper third depicting a green sea with a green coconut palm
issuing there from; the shield being surmounted by a gold cross,
and superimposed on 2 concentric circles of the world and the
The first truly national flag of Samoa appears to have been adopted on
October 2, 1873. The red background bore a white cross extending to
the edges of the flag, as well as a white star in the upper hoist
corner.
