Flag of Grenada

What the flag of Grenada looks like

The flag of Grenada has a red border on all four sides, with three yellow five-pointed stars along the top edge and three along the bottom edge. Inside the border, the field is divided by the diagonals into four triangles. The top and bottom triangles are yellow, and the triangles at the hoist and fly are green.

In the center is a red disc with a yellow five-pointed star. On the green triangle next to the pole is a small nutmeg, which adds a reddish-brown fourth color to the flag. The proportions of the flag are 3:5. You can also find it as the Grenada flag emoji 🇬🇩.

Grenada flag meaning and symbolism

Most elements of the flag have a commonly given meaning:

• Red stands for harmony, unity, courage and vitality.
• Yellow stands for the sun and for the warmth and wisdom of Grenadians.
• Green stands for vegetation and the agriculture of the island.
• The seven stars stand for the parishes: the six stars on the red border represent six parishes, and the star on the central disc stands for the sister islands of Carriacou and Petite Martinique, counted as the seventh parish.
• The nutmeg shows that Grenada is known as the "Isle of Spice". Grenada is the second-largest producer of nutmeg in the world, after Indonesia, and is nicknamed the "Spice Island".

Red, yellow and green also appear on many flags of Africa and the Caribbean. Grenada is a Caribbean country, not an African one.

History of the Grenada flag

Sovereignty over Grenada changed hands between the French and the British throughout the 18th century, until the Peace of Paris in 1783 saw France permanently give the island to the United Kingdom. It became a crown colony in 1877.

Grenada became an associated state of the United Kingdom on 3 March 1967 and adopted a temporary flag: a blue, yellow and green horizontal tricolor with a nutmeg in the center. The current flag was designed by Anthony C. George, a Grenadian from Soubise in Saint Andrew Parish. It was hoisted at midnight on 7 February 1974, the day Grenada became independent, and adopted by the government the same day. The nutmeg was the one feature kept from the earlier flag.

The flag has remained the same since independence. Grenada is a member of the Commonwealth. Compare it with other flags in the region on the flags of North America page.