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A golden yellow flag with the Union flag in the upper left (hoist) quarter of the flags. On the Union Jack are two yellow five-pointed stars on the vertical stripe and two on the horizontal stripe. In the centre of the Union flag is a blue disc with another, slightly larger, yellow five-pointed star.
Flag of Australia: 1903 –1908: Flag of Australia: 1867 –1869: Flag of the Kingdom of Bau: 1893 –1901: Flag of the Cook Islands Federation: 1973 –1979: Flag of the Cook Islands: 1865 –1867: Flag of the Confederacy of Independent Kingdoms of Fiji: 1871 –1874: Flag of the Kingdom of Fiji: 1877 –1883: Flag of the Colony of Fiji: 1883 ...
Flags of Oceania (1 C, 2 P) National symbols of French Polynesia (2 C, 4 P) N. National symbols of New Zealand (3 C, 18 P) S. National symbols of Samoa (1 C, 5 P)
[140] The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Place Names (2017), by John Everett-Heath, states that Oceania is "a collective name for more than 10,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean" and that "it is generally accepted that Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, and the islands north of Japan (the Kurils and Aleutians) are excluded."
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the geographical region of Oceania. Although it is mostly ocean and spans many tectonic plates, Oceania is occasionally listed as one of the continents. Most of this list follows the boundaries of geopolitical Oceania, which includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
The United Nations geoscheme is a system which divides 248 countries and territories in the world into six continental regions, 22 geographical subregions, and two intermediary regions. [1] It was devised by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) based on the M49 coding classification . [ 2 ]
The status of these flags varies from one country or sovereign state to the next: most of them are official flags, whereas others are only used de facto, sometimes to indicate a desire for more autonomy or independence. Some flags, such as the flags of Leicestershire and Warwickshire, were created by the College of Arms in the United Kingdom.
The United Nations geoscheme subdivides the region into Australia and New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The UNSD notes that "the assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories". [ 1 ]