Flag of Greenland
Other names | Erfalasorput ("our flag"), Aappalaartoq ("the red") |
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Use | National flag and civil ensign |
Proportion | 2:3 |
Adopted | 21 June 1985[1] |
Design | A horizontal bicolour of white and red, with a counterchanged disk slightly off-centre towards the hoist. |
Designed by | Thue Christiansen |
The flag of Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit erfalasuat, Danish: Grønlands flag) was designed by Greenland native Thue Christiansen.[2] It features two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red (bottom) with a counter-changed red-and-white disk slightly to the hoist side of centre. The entire flag measures 18 by 12 parts; each stripe measures 6 parts; the disk is 8 parts in diameter, horizontally offset by 7 parts from the hoist to the centre of the circle, and vertically centered.
Its local name in the
History
Greenland first entertained the idea of a flag of its own in 1973 when five Greenlanders proposed a green, white and blue flag. The following year, a newspaper solicited eleven design proposals (all but one of which was a
In 1978, Denmark granted home rule to Greenland, making it an equal member of the Danish Realm. The home rule government held an official call for flag proposals, receiving 555 (of which 293 were submitted by Greenlanders).
The deciding committee came to no consensus, so more proposals were solicited. Finally, the present red-and-white design by Thue Christiansen narrowly won over a green-and-white Nordic cross by a vote of fourteen to eleven.[5] Christiansen's red-and-white flag was officially adopted on 21 June 1985.[2]
To honour the tenth anniversary of the flag, the Greenland
The colours of the flag are the same as those of the flag of Denmark, symbolizing Greenland's place in the Danish realm.[8]
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The flag of Denmark was used before the Greenlandic flag became official.
Other proposals
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Nordic Cross proposal by Sven Tito Achenin 1984 which was narrowly defeated by the current flag
See also
- Flag of Denmark
- Flag of the Faroe Islands
- List of flags of Denmark
- Raven banner
References
- ^ a b "Politics in Greenland – Government of Greenland". Archived from the original on 2017-10-15. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
- ^ a b "Greenland's flag". Nordic Council. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
- ^ "The Greenland flag in the capital Nuk, Greenland". GRID-Arendal. Archived from the original on 2018-12-14. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
- ISBN 9788763512763.
- ^ "Nu vajer det grønlandske flag over Danmark". 21 June 2016. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
- ^ "Greenland (Denmark)". flagspot.net. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
- ^ "(Danish) Grønland må gerne bruge roklub-flag". Politiken. 3 October 2006. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ^ "The Greenland Flag". Nordic Co-operation. Archived from the original on Mar 4, 2018.
External links
- FOTW: Greenland - History of the flag
- Other flag proposals for a Nordic crossdesign
- http://www.flagscorner.com/greenland-flag/ Archived 2020-02-17 at the Wayback Machine