Most people depicted on a national flag

The civil and state flag of Belize depicts two male woodcutters standing in front of a mahogany tree, symbolizing the country's logging industry. Adopted on 21 September 1981, when the country gained its independence from the UK, it is the only national flag that features a depiction of human beings as the central part of the design.

The country's national coat of arms, which is positioned in the centre of the flag, features a mahogany tree crest, a wreath of 50 leaves and an escutcheon on which is displayed logging tools and a sailing ship. The motto reads "Sub umbra floreo" ("Under the shade I flourish"). The two loggers are garbed in trousers, with a Mestizo logger bearing an beating axe and an African logger bearing a paddle.

The only other national flag that depicts a human is the Maltese flag, on which a very small image of St George can be found within the badge of the George Cross in the upper hoist-side corner. A single human figure can also be seen on the flags of the dependencies of Montserrat (Erin, the female personification of Ireland) and the British Virgin Islands (Saint Ursula); the flag of French Polynesia features five humans, in the shape of star-shaped figures paddling a canoe, representing the five islands in the archipelago.