flag: Palau
flag: Palau, ๊น๋ฐ: ํ๋ผ์ฐ
The flag of Palau has a simple yet beautiful design, a yellow circle on a light blue background. This flag has been in use since 1981.
Palau is a beautiful island nation in the Pacific Ocean. It is famous for its clear waters and diverse marine life, especially the renowned Jellyfish Lake.
ํ๋ผ์ฐ์ ๊น๋ฐ์ ํ๋์ ๋ฐํ์ ๋ ธ๋ ๋๊ทธ๋ผ๋ฏธ๊ฐ ์๋ ๋จ์ํ๋ฉด์๋ ์๋ฆ๋ค์ด ๋์์ธ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ๊น๋ฐ์ 1981๋ ๋ถํฐ ์ฌ์ฉ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
ํ๋ผ์ฐ๋ ํํ์์ ์๋ ์๋ฆ๋ค์ด ์ฌ๋๋ผ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ง์ ๋ฐ๋ค์ ๋ค์ํ ํด์์๋ฌผ๋ก ์ ๋ช ํ๋ฉฐ, ํนํ ํดํ๋ฆฌ ํธ์๊ฐ ์ ๋ช ํ ๊ด๊ด์ง์ ๋๋ค.
The light blue of the flag symbolizes the Pacific Ocean, and the yellow circle represents the full moon. This reflects the traditional calendar and agricultural culture of the Palauan people, embodying their philosophy of living in harmony with nature.
Palau is considered one of the most beautiful diving destinations in the world and is a leader in environmental protection. In 2020, it demonstrated its strong commitment to conservation by enacting the world's first ban on harmful sunscreens to protect its coral reefs.