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- Republic of the Marshall Islands
- presidial republic
- with the USA associated state
- zone of US-american influence
- own name: Republic of the Marshall Islands
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National flag,
ratio = 10:19,
Source, by: Wikipedia (EN)
1888–1906,
Flag of the Jaluit Company,
Source, by: Wikipedia (DE)
1878–1894,
Flag of the Ralik Islands,
Source, by: Wikipedia (DE)
1893–1914,
German Empire,
official flag of Colonial Office,
ratio = 2:3,
Source, by: Wikipedia (DE)
1914–1944,
Flag of Japan,
Source, by: Wikipedia (EN)
1944–1986,
Flag of USA,
ratio = 10:19,
Source, by: Wikipedia (DE)
1947–1962,
UN Trust Territory,
Flag of UNO,
Seitenverhältnis = 2:3,
Quelle, nach:
Wikipedia (EN)
1962–1979,
UN Trust Territory,
Flag of the Pacific Islands,
ratio = 10:19,
Source, by: Flags of the World
The today's flag od the Marshall Islands was introduced on 1st of May in 1979. It shows two diagonally passing stripes in orange and white on blue ground which widen to the right border. In the left upper corner a white star with four main points and twenty smaller points. The blue base colour symbolises the Pacific Ocean, the orange stands for the Ralik Islands and for courage, white for the Ratak Islands and for brightness, light and peace. The orange and white stripe points upwards and widens, which is supposed to mean increasing prosperity and joy of life on the islands. The star symbolises the Christian crucifix. The four main rays of the star are symbols for the four main islands, the twenty smaller ones represent the smaller islands. The flag was designed by Emlain Kabua, the wife of the country's then president. As the Marshall Islands still have been a part of the UN Trust Territory of the "Pacific Islands", so between 1947 and 1979, was hoisted here since 3rd of October in 1962 the flag of the UN Trust Territory. It was pale blue and showed six circular grouped white five-pointed stars. The blue stood for the UN and the six stars for the six administrative districts, the Pacific Islands consisted of. In the times as the Marshall Islands have been a German Colony there was no own flag for the country, but already before 1893 on some the islands were in use various styled black-white-red flags, either because of private initiatives of German merchants or even island's princes showed in this way their loyalty.
Source:
Flags of the World,
Wikipedia (D),
Flaggen und Wappen der Welt
Seal of the Marshall Islands,
Source: Ericmetro, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The Marshall Islands use a seal. It was introduced like the flag in the year 1979. It shows in the middle a stylized "Spirit of Peace", above that the 24-pointed star from the flag furthermore an atoll, a sailboat, a fishing net and a sea-wave nautical chart. Underneath the Motto of the state "Jepilpilin Ke Ejukaan" → "The people live long"
Source:
Flaggen und Wappen der Welt
Location:
Source: CIA World Factbook
Map of the country:
Source: CIA World Factbook
Area: 70 square miles
Inhabitants: 59.000 (2020), therof 98% Micronesians
Religions: 90% Protestant, 8,5% Roman Catholic
Density of Population: 844 inh./sq.mi.
Capital: Majuro, 27.797 inh. (2011)
official Languages: Marshallese, English
Currency: 1 US-Dollar (USD, US$) = 100 Cents
Time Zone: GMT + 12 h
Source: Wikipedia (D)
ca. 1500 B.C. · first settlement on the islands
1529 · discovery of the islands by the Spanish seafarer Saavedra
1788 · the Briton Marshall explores the region, the islands later get his name
1887 · beginning colonization by the German Jaluit Company
1888 · the Marshall Islands become protectorate of the German Empire
1906 · the Marshall Islands become affiliated as District of Jap with the colony of German New Guinea
1914 · First World War (1914–1918), occupation by Japanese troops
1920 · Versailles Dictate, the German Empire loses all its colonies, the Marshall Islands become officially – together with the other German possessions (Marianen and Caroline Islands) in Micronesia – as "Pacific Islands" a Mandate Territory of the League of Nations under Japanese mandate
1941 · Second World War (1939–1945), occupation by US-American troops after violent struggles
1945 · the Marshall Islands become officially hand over to the USA
1947 · formation of the UN trust territory of the "Pacific Islands" (Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands) under US-American administration
1946–1958 · in total 67 tests of nuclear arms of the USA on the Marshall Islands (atolls of Bikini, Rongelap, Ratak and Eniwetok)
1965 · establishment of an own legislative congregation for the Pacific Islands
1978 · referendum for the formation of the Federated State of Micronesia after the end of the USA administration on the Pacific Islands, the Mariana Islands leave the society of the Pacific Islands and become a with the USA associated state
1st of January 1979 · the Marshall Islands adope an own constitution, separation out of the association of the Pacific Islands
1986 · independence in the framework of a traty of association with the USA, the Marshall Islands become a with the USA associated state
1990 · official abolition of the UN trust territory
1991 · joining to the UN
Source:
Atlas zur Geschichte,
Wikipedia (D)
The name of the country has its roots in the British Captain Marshall who explored the islands in the year 1788.
Source: Wikipedia (D)