Niue: Flag and Facts
Niue's flag is a yellow field with a Union Jack in the upper hoist corner, and that Union Jack carries five yellow stars: a large one on a blue disk at the center and a small one on each arm.
- Capital
- Alofi
- Region
- Polynesia
- Population
- 1,815 (2024)
- Languages
- English, Niuean
- Currency
- New Zealand dollar
- Area
- 260 km² (100 sq mi)
- People
- Niuean
- Calling code
- +683
- Highest point
- unnamed elevation 1.4 km east of Hikutavake 80 m
- Independence
- 19 October 1974 (Niue became a self-governing state in free…)
- National symbols
- yellow five-pointed star
- Borders
- No land borders
- Status
- Territory (not a sovereign country)
About Niue
The big star is Niue itself, while the four little ones point to its ties with New Zealand. Yellow covers sunshine plus the warm friendship between the two places, and it is the only color listed as national. A yellow five-pointed star counts as the national symbol.
Samoan voyagers settled the island around A.D. 900, and a second wave came from Tonga around 1500. Fresh water was scarce, with only one dependable source, so fights broke out often. James Cook stopped by in 1774 and, after a hostile welcome, labeled it Savage Island. Missionaries struggled to stay until 1846, when a local man trained in Samoa came home and gave them a base, and the first parliament formed in 1849. Britain made it a protectorate in 1900, New Zealand absorbed it the next year, and it got its own separate administration in 1904. Self-government followed in 1974, in free association with New Zealand.
Did you know?
- Alofi, the capital, counts only about 1,000 residents.
- Niue's top spot is an unnamed rise near Hikutavake, just 80 meters high.
- Steep limestone cliffs ring the coast, with a flat plateau in the middle.
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Questions about Niue
What currency does Niue use?
Niue spends the New Zealand dollar.
How big is Niue?
It covers 260 square kilometers, about one and a half Washington, D.C.s, and had 1,815 residents in 2024.
Sources
- CIA World Factbook, checked October 8, 2026
- REST Countries data (mledoze/countries), checked October 8, 2026
- Flag artwork: flag-icons (MIT), checked October 8, 2026
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