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North America

USA: State and overseas territory flags
The date when each state joined the Union is shown below the state name.

WEST VIRGINIA WISCONSIN
1863 1848

The coat of arms dates from 1863 when The flag is derived from the militia colors of
West Virginia seceded from Virginia. The he Union in 1863. It depicts the state
current version of the flag was adopted in eal, supported by a miner and a sailor.
1929 and has the arms within a wreath of The shield also recalls mining and sailing.
rhododendron, the state flower. The name and the date were added in 1980.

WYOMING MERICAN SAMOA
1890

The flag emerged from a design A self-governing US dependency, American
competition and was adopted in 1917. The amoa’s flag shows its links with the guardian
flag has been revised several times—at one ate, in the colors and the American bald
time the buffalo containing the arms faced agle. Here the eagle carries Samoan
the fly. The colors recall the national flag. mblems.

GUAM NORTHERN
MARIANA ISLANDS

The flag was designed locally and adopted The original flag was adopted in 1972,
in 1917. In the center of the flag, in the US ut has undergone several modifications,
colors, is the seal of the territory, which ncluding the addition of the flower-wreath.
depicts an idealized landscape. The flag can t also depicts a gray latte stone representing
only be flown with the US flag. he islands’ Chamorro culture.

PUERTO RICO VIRGIN ISLANDS
(US)

The resemblance of this flag to that of Cuba The flag dates from 1921 and uses part of the
is no coincidence, since the two were US seal, with the initials of the islands. The
designed at the same time, by the same hree arrows in one claw stand for the main
activists. This version was adopted in 1952. lands; in the other claw is an olive branch.

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