Hello followers and fellow Steemians welcome to the review of the flag of Antigua and Barbuda! This is the 6th flag i'll be covering on my series to cover most of the flags of the world! I hope you enjoy the ride and maybe just maybe, you can also start to like flags a lot just like me! I'm trying hard to get people from other vexillology communities into steemit but no success so far! Guess i'll just have to keep on trying!
Today's Flag is the Flag of Antigua and Barbuda!
Flag of Antigua and Barbuda
This flag was adopted shortly after Antigua and Barbuda achieved self-governance on February of 1967. Antigua and Barbuda had been a British colony since 1632!. The flag was adopted to mark this achievement and a contest was held were more than 600 people participated! The winner of the contest was a high school teacher named Reginal Samuel.
The design of the flag is a red background with an upside down pyramid emblem in the middle. The pyramid is divided in three colors with a sun in the top part of the pyramid.
Meanings
The red color represents the energy and life on the people inhabiting the islands.
The black represents the African ancestry of the people in the island, since most of the people today are descendants of slaves brought into the Americas in the African slave trade era.
The blue represents hope and when combined with the white color and the sun it also represents the Caribbean sea and sand.
The sun is meant to represent the new era that started for the people of the island when the nation got its independence from the UK. The creator of the flag Sir Reginald Samuels said he was inspired to create a flag that reflected the nation's past but embraced the new era for the future!
Colonial Flags
Before its independence Antigua and Barbuda had flags similar to those used by other colonies of the UK like Australia or New Zealand.
Facts
The country has a total of 365 beaches, meaning you can go to 1 different beach everyday for a year! (except if it happens to be a leap year, then you are out of luck i guess)
The highest point the country is Mount Obama (Formerly known as Boggy Peak, thanks Obama!) , yes you read that right, they named the highest point of their country after president Barack Obama in 2009.
Location
Antigua and Barbuda is located in between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic ocean
The flags in this post where sourced from Pixabay.
The picture showing the location of the country was sourced from Wikipedia
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