File:Flag of Samoa.svg

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Summary

Description

Gagana Samoa: Fu‘a o Sāmoa

English: Flag of Samoa

Deutsch: Flagge Samoas

Español: Bandera de Samoa

Māori: Pīwari o Hāmoa

Slovenščina: Zastava Samoe

Date

24 November 2005 (original upload date)

Source

Own work based on: Flag of Samoa (construction sheet).svg, Flag and National Anthem of Samoa Act 1994

Flag of Samoa (construction sheet).svg

Author

See File history, below, for details.

Permission
(Reusing this file)

This image of simple geometry is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.

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SVG development

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This flag was created with a text editor.

The five stars represent the moonlight and the date back to the 9th century which means blue=water and hope red=land and blood. The blue color represent the liberty and the health.

derivative works

Derivative works of this file: Southern Cross (Samoa).svg

File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	02:39, 14 January 2023	1,200 × 600 (724 bytes)	MapGrid	Changed nominal size to 1200 × 600. Created a 2nd star in "defs" so that the translations for the lower stars can be done with rational numbers.
	19:28, 19 January 2015	2,880 × 1,440 (723 bytes)	SiBr4	Cloned all of the stars
	20:42, 22 June 2013	2,880 × 1,440 (985 bytes)	Fry1989	no reason for the revert
	16:00, 22 June 2013	864 × 432 (3 KB)	De728631	Reverted to free version by Vzb83 as of 16:30, 15 February 2006
	09:29, 21 August 2011	2,880 × 1,440 (985 bytes)	Alkari	fix color of stars
	06:48, 18 August 2011	2,880 × 1,440 (949 bytes)	Alkari	code cleanup
	08:51, 2 December 2009	2,880 × 1,440 (2 KB)	Zscout370	http://www.govt.ws/popiframe_ge.cfm?gi_id=006
	21:44, 9 May 2008	864 × 432 (3 KB)	Avala
	16:30, 15 February 2006	864 × 432 (3 KB)	Vzb83~commonswiki	redrawn using http://www.vexilla-mundi.com/samoa.htm
	20:36, 4 February 2006	992 × 496 (8 KB)	Vzb83~commonswiki	fixed stars; colours from http://www.vexilla-mundi.com/samoa.htm