Flags of New Caledonia

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New Caledonia

Both flags used by New Caledonia
Tricolore
National flag, always used
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	15 February 1794
Design	A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and red.
Kanak Flag
FLNKS flag, often used
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	13 July 2010[1]
Design	A horizontal tricolour of blue, red, and green charged with a yellow disc outlined in black and defaced with a black flèche faîtière.

Two flags are in use in New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France. Up to 2010, the only flag used to represent New Caledonia was the flag of France, a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue (hoist side), white, and red known to English speakers as the French Tricolour or simply the Tricolour. However, in July 2010, the Congress of New Caledonia voted in favour of a wish to fly the Kanak flag of the independence movement FLNKS alongside the French Tricolour. The wish, legally non-binding, proved controversial.^[1][2] A majority of New Caledonian communes, but not all, now fly both flags, the rest flying only the French Tricolour.^[3]