Greenland flag

An island in the northeastern part of North America, a remote part of Denmark with full self-government.
State flag and civil naval flag. Its proportions are 2: 3. Greenland flag - adopted on June 21, 1985. It is a rectangular panel with two horizontal stripes. Above there is a strip of white, below - red. There is a red and white circle on top of the stripes. The top of the circle is red and the bottom is white. The white stripe symbolizes the icy mountain peaks of Greenland, the red stripe the ocean. The white part of the circle means icebergs and pack ice, the red part of it means fjords. Other interpretations interpret the circle on the flag as a symbol of the setting and rising sun. The color scheme follows the colors of the flag of Denmark, which owns Greenland.