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French Polynesia
Polynésie française - Pōrīnetia Farāni- Tahiti Nui
The flag of French Polynesia is rectangular, measuring 1 meter (3.28 ft.) by 1.5 meters (4.9 ft.). It has three [horizontal] stripes of colors red, white and red. The white central stripe is twice as wide as the two red stripes. The center of the flag presents the symbol of French Polynesia, a white circle 43 centimeters (16.9 inches) in diameter that is filled with a Polynesian canoe with red sails. The canoe and sails are outlined in brown, as are two figurines atop each of the two prows and five designs on the platform between the two canoe hulls. Those designs represent the five archipelagos of French Polynesia. The canoe is set against a sun depicted by 10 golden rays, which represent life. The canoe sits in a sky blue sea depicted by five rows of waves, the ocean representing abundance.
The flag is derived from the former Tahitian flag of the Pomare family, who ruled some islands last century.
Coat of arms of French Polynesia
On 23 November 1984, the Assembly of French Polynesia officially adopted the Polynesian sailing canoe, as the Territory's symbol of essential values for the people of Tahiti & Her Islands. This second symbol, the coat of arms, testifies the Territory's attachment to ancestral values and serves as a guide, for the present and the future.
The Assembly meeting that adopted the resolution on the coat of arms referred to traditional values by noting that the canoe "is an indispensable tool of subsistence for fishing", but it is also "the imperative means of transportation and communication between the islands".
The canoe is still a symbol of a past when it was "a ceremonial and conquest vessel" during the sacred period of kings and great chiefs, and played a major role in the long migrations and the life of Polynesians, the people of the sea.
Today, the Polynesian society is often compared to this canoe: the democratic emblem translates the choice of a social organization, based on the virtues of courage, self-sacrifice and solidarity. The coat of arms is part of French Polynesia's flag and seal.
The Assembly meeting that adopted the resolution on the coat of arms referred to traditional values by noting that the canoe "is an indispensable tool of subsistence for fishing", but it is also "the imperative means of transportation and communication between the islands".
The canoe is still a symbol of a past when it was "a ceremonial and conquest vessel" during the sacred period of kings and great chiefs, and played a major role in the long migrations and the life of Polynesians, the people of the sea.
Today, the Polynesian society is often compared to this canoe: the democratic emblem translates the choice of a social organization, based on the virtues of courage, self-sacrifice and solidarity. The coat of arms is part of French Polynesia's flag and seal.
(source: https://fotw.info/flags/pf.html,https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Polynesia)
