Independentist movement flag in common use.

French flag, used officially.

The only flag in official use in New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France, is the French tricolour. A flag in fairly widespread unofficial use, however, is the flag of the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), an independentist political party in New Caledonia. Image File history File links Flag_of_New_Caledonia. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_New_Caledonia. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... The tricolour flag of France A flag is a symbol, often displayed on a piece of cloth that can be flown from a pole or mast, and is generally used for signalling or identification. ... Flag Ratio: 2:3 The national flag of France (Vexillological symbol: , known in French as drapeau tricolore, drapeau bleu-blanc-rouge, drapeau français, rarely, le tricolore and, in military parlance, les couleurs) is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue (hoist side), white, and red. ...

The FLNKS flag, first adopted by the party in 1980, is composed of three fesses of blue (Pantone 286c), red (Pantone 032c) and green (Pantone 347c) charged with a yellow (Pantone 102c) disc of a diameter two-thirds the height of the flag centred at a position of one-third the width of the flag, measured from the hoist side. The disc is fimbrated black and defaced with a vertical symbol, also black. A fess is a term used in heraldry to describe a charge on a coat of arms that takes the form of a band running from the left to the right side of the shield, centered from top to bottom. ... The term Blue may refer any of a number of similar colors. ... Pantone Inc. ... Red may be any of a number of similar colors at the lowest frequencies of light discernible by the human eye. ... Green is a color with many different shades, all within a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nm. ... Yellow is any color of light that stimulates both the red and green cone cells of the retina, but not the blue cone cells. ... Black is a color with several subtle differences in meaning. ...

The blue symbolizes both the sky but more importantly the ocean surrounding New Caledonia. The red symbolizes the blood shed by the Kanaks in their struggle for independence, socialism, and unity. The green symbolizes the land itself and by extension the ancestors buried within it. The yellow disc is a representation of the sun and the symbol upon it consists of a flèche faitière, a kind of arrow which adorns the roofs of Kanak houses thrust through tutut shells. Kanak (formerly also Canaque) are the indigenous Melanesian inhabitants of New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific. ... Socialism is a class of ideologies favouring a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control. ...

External links

• Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front at Flags of the World