Jamaica’s flag has a golden saltire and contains neither red nor white.
Jamaica’s national flag uses a gold diagonal cross, or saltire, dividing the design into green triangles at the top and bottom and black triangles at the hoist and fly. Gold represents sunlight and the natural wealth of Jamaica, green represents hope and agricultural resources, and black represents the strength and creativity of the people.
The flag was adopted on 6 August 1962, the day Jamaica became independent from the United Kingdom. Its design was selected from proposals developed during the independence process, and the saltire gives it a strong visual connection with a traditional cross-bearer flag while remaining distinctly Jamaican.
Jamaica is widely recognized as the only current national flag without red, white, or blue. That fact is sometimes misstated as meaning the flag uses no primary colors at all; its gold, green, and black palette is better understood as a deliberate national-color combination.