What is Flag of New Zealand?
{{no sources|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox flag | Name = New Zealand | Nickname = | Image = Flag of New Zealand.svg | Use = 111010 | Symbol = {{FIAV|normal}} | Proportion = 1:2 | Adoption = 24 March 1902<br /><small>In use since 1869</small> | Design = A [[Blue Ensign]] with the [[Crux|Southern Cross]] of four white-edged red five-pointed stars centred on the outer half of the flag. | Type = National | Designer = [[Albert Hastings Markham]] }} The '''flag of New Zealand''' was adopted in 1907. It has the [[Union Flag]] of the [[United Kingdom]] in the upper left quarter, and the [[Southern Cross]] on a blue ground. it picks up the country's position as an island in a southern ocean, and its [[British]] heritage. There was a [[referendum]] going on to find a replacement flag in 2015. New Zealanders voted to keep the original flag and not change it. [[File:NZ flag design Silver Fern (Black, White & Blue) by Kyle Lockwood.svg|thumb|250px|The silver fern flag of the [[New Zealand flag referendums, 2015–16|2015 referendum]]]] [[Category:National flags|New Zealand]] [[Category:National symbols of New Zealand]] [[Category:Flags with cantons]] {{stub}}