Flag of New Zealand
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Use | National flag and state ensign ![]() |
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Proportion | 1:2 |
Adopted | 24 March 1902 In use since 1869 |
Design | A Blue Ensign with the Southern Cross of four white-edged red five-pointed stars centred on the outer half of the flag. |
Designed by | Albert Hastings Markham |
The flag of New Zealand was adopted in 1907. It has the Union Flag of the United Kingdom in the upper left quarter, and the Southern Cross on a blue ground. it picks up the country's position as an island in a southern ocean, and its British heritage.
There was a referendum going on to find a replacement flag in 2015. New Zealanders voted to keep the original flag and not change it.
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