The United Nations Organisation Flag is in the center of a light blue field there is the white badge of the UN - a simplified map of the world between the North Pole and 60 degrees south with all the inhabited continents shown in outline. The map is flanked by two olive branches... Blue and white are the colors of the UN, the olive branches symbolize world peace, and the map of the world shows the extent of the UN's sphere of influence.
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The flag of the United Nations was adopted on October 20, 1947.
The flag has the official emblem of the United Nations in white on a blue background. The emblem is composed of an azimuthal equidistant projection of a world map (less Antarctica) centred on the North Pole, enclosed in olive branches. The olive branches are a symbol for peace, and the world map represents all the people of the world.
A similar looking flag was first presented in a slightly different form from the present one at the Organisation Conference in San Francisco in April 1945, with the difference of the drawing of the Earth. The flag was distributed among delegates and the press. In 1946 a UNO committee got the task of making a definite design, which was presented December 2, 1946 and adopted by the plenary session of the UNO on December 7, 1946. The earlier version had the globe 90 degrees turned eastward compared with the present flag. The change was made, according to press statements, to take North America from the center of the emblem.
White and blue are the official colors of the United Nations.
The United Nations Flag is flown with the National Flag of Canada on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on United Nations Day, October 24, and by special arrangement on other occasions including visits to Ottawa by the Secretary General of the United Nations or his representative
Flag consisting of a blue field incorporating, in white, a central map of the Earth framed by olive branches. The flag's width-to-length ratio is 2 to 3 or, alternatively, 3 to 5.
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