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The national flag of Curaçao represents the country of
Curaçao Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...
as well as the island area within the
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from 1984 until its dissolution in 2010. The flag is a blue field with a horizontal yellow stripe slightly below the midline and two white, five-pointed stars in the
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. The blue symbolises the sea and sky (the bottom and top blue sections, respectively), divided by a yellow stroke representing the bright sun which bathes the island. The two stars represent Curaçao and Klein Curaçao, with the five points on each star symbolise the five continents from which Curaçao's people descend. The horizontal stripes have a ratio of 5:1:2 (blue:yellow:blue). The stars have diameters and of the flag height. The centre of the smaller one is the flag height from the left and top edges, and the centre of the larger is from the left and top edges. The blue is
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280, and the yellow, Pantone 102. After
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's adoption of its own flag (while still part of the
Netherlands Antilles nl, In vrijheid verenigd"Unified by freedom" , national_anthem = , common_languages = Dutch English Papiamento , demonym = Netherlands Antillean , capital = Willemstad , year_start = 1954 , year_end = 2010 , date_start = 15 December , ...
), Curaçao received approval for a flag in 1979. Two thousand designs were submitted to a special council; ten were shortlisted, and the council decided on 29 November 1982. With some modifications, the flag was adopted on 2 July 1984.boletin8-history-antillas


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Flag of Netherlands Antilles The flag of the Netherlands Antilles was white, with a horizontal blue stripe in the center, one-third of the flag's hoist, superimposed on a vertical red stripe of the same width, also centered; six white, five-pointed stars are arranged in a hex ...
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Flag of the Netherlands The national flag of the Netherlands ( nl, de Nederlandse vlag) is a horizontal tricolour (flag), tricolour of red, white, and blue. The current design originates as a variant of the late 16th century orange-white-blue ''Prince's Flag, Prinse ...
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Flag of Nauru Following the declaration of independence, independence of Nauru, the flag of Nauru ( na, anidenin Naoero) was raised for the first time. The flag, chosen in a local design competition, was adopted on independence day, 31 January 1968. The des ...


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Flags of the Netherlands Antilles National flags Flags introduced in 1984