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Description 1884–1888: Flag of British New Guinea: A blue British ensign with a white disc in the fly featuring the Tudor Crown over the initials "N.G.". 1888–1906: Flag of British New Guinea: A blue British ensign with a white disc in the fly featuring the Tudor Crown over the initials "B.N.G.". 1921–1971: Flag of the Territory of New Guinea
Papua New Guinea; Use: National flag, civil and state ensign: Proportion: 3:4: Adopted: 1 July 1971; 53 years ago (): Design: Divided diagonally from the upper hoist-side corner to the lower fly-side corner: the upper triangle is red with the soaring Raggiana bird-of-paradise and the lower triangle is black with the Southern Cross of four white larger five-pointed stars and the smaller star.
Later, the Autonomous Bougainville Government's Bougainville Flag, Emblem and Anthem (Protection) Act 2018 reaffirmed the official status of the flag. It also created a new offense of using, displaying, destroying or damaging the flag with the intention to dishonor it, with a maximum fine of 10,000 kina or around $2,900 as of December 2020, and ...
The upe is the central figure of the flag of Bougainville and forms the crest of the emblem of Bougainville. [1] It is made of tightly wound straw. [2] According to the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, the tradition is practised on Buka Island and in the Bougainville Island districts of Selau, Wakunai and Teua. Upes spend as long as three years ...
In 1971, when Karike was aged 15, her school, the Catholic Mission School at Yule Island in Central Province [3] [4] was visited by the Selection Committee on Constitutional Development on 12 February. [3] [5] The committee already had a preliminary design for a new flag for Papua New Guinea, which had been designed by an Australian artist, Hal ...
Central Province (Papua New Guinea) Cloudy Bay Rural LLG; Goilala District; Guari Rural LLG; Hiri Rural LLG; ISO 3166-2:PG; Kairuku-Hiri District; Kairuku Rural LLG; Koiari Rural LLG; List of Papua New Guinean flags; List of country subdivision flags in Oceania; List of flags by number of colors; List of political and geographic subdivisions by ...
Flag of Papua New Guinea, which features the bird. The Raggiana bird-of-paradise is 34 centimetres (13 in) long. Its overall colour is a maroon-brown, with a greyish-blue bill, yellow iris and greyish-brown feet. The male has a yellow crown, dark emerald-green throat and yellow collar between the throat and its blackish upper breast feathers.
Provincial-level divisions of Papua New Guinea; Category: Unitary state: Location: Independent State of Papua New Guinea: Number: 22 provincial-level divisions: 20 Provinces 1 Autonomous Region 1 National Capital District: Populations: Provinces only: Smallest: 50,231 Largest: 674,810 : Areas: Provinces only: Smallest: 2,100 km 2 (800 sq mi)