Monday, September 24, 2007

Flag of Greenland

The flag of Greenland was adopted on June 21, 1985.

Flag ratio 2:3
It features two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red with a large disk slightly to the hoist side of center. The top half of the disk is red, the bottom half is white.
The white stripe is representing the glaciers and ice cap, which cover more than 80% of the island; the red stripe, the ocean; the red semicircle, the sun, with its bottom part sunk in the ocean; and the white semicircle, the icebergs and pack ice.