โญThe big white star has 24 points โ one for each of the country's electoral districts. The four longest points stand for the main cultural centres.
๐จThe two diagonal stripes stand for the equator. The orange ray means courage and the island group called Ratak (sunrise), and the white means peace and the Ralik group (sunset).
๐๏ธThe Marshall Islands are made of 29 coral atolls and 5 islands scattered across the Pacific Ocean โ rings of tiny islands around calm blue lagoons.
๐The stripe getting wider as it rises stands for the islands lying just north of the equator and rising up out of the vast Pacific Ocean.