The flag of Bougainville (Tok Pisin: plak bilong Bogenvil) is a symbol of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. It was originally adopted in 1975 by the secessionist Republic of the North Solomons .

The Flag of Bougainville (Tok Pisin: plak bilong Bogenvil) is a symbol of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. It was originally adopted in 1975 by the secessionist Republic of the North Solomons.

A law passed by the provincial assembly – the Bougainville Flag, Emblem and Anthem (Protection) Act 2018 – affirmed the existing official status of the flag of Bougainville and emblem of Bougainville.

2025年3月12日 · This is a gallery with flags of provinces of Papua New Guinea.

Buka Island (pronounced: [buːkə]) is the second-largest island in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea. It is in Buka Rural LLG of North Bougainville District, with the Autonomous Region's and district's capital city of Buka on the island.

The crafts and customs of Buka and North Bougainville are fascinating for anyone interested in the culture. Featured on the provincial flag is a tall hat, known as Upei. The Upei is a woven headdress worn by young men at their initiation and marriage ceremonies.

2017年10月21日 · Bougainville has a really cool flag! According to FOTW, the blue represents the sea, the white ring represents a shell, the green triangles represent islands (it does not mention any significance to the number of triangles), the black disc represents the color of the people, and the centerpiece is an upei.

2019年11月25日 · From NETANI RIKA on Buka, Bougainville IF flags here could speak, they would tell of an island chain poised on the edge of nationhood and held back only by an act of free choice and a decision to be made by legislators in Port Moresby.

IT was November 2000 and MV Solomon Queen approached Buka wharf in what was then termed the North Solomons Province of Papua New Guinea. The passenger ferry berthed alongside the jetty to disembark passengers from Rabaul, almost all of them Bougainvilleans.

The Bougainville flag is a rectangular flag, proportions 3 to 2, at the centre of which is a depiction of an upe superimposed over concentric discs of black and white on a cobalt blue field (representing the ocean that surrounds the islands of Bougainville).