The national flag of Curaçao represents the country of

Curaçao Curaçao, officially the Country of Curaçao, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located in the southern Caribbean Sea (specifically the Dutch Caribbean region), about north of Venezuela. Curaçao includ ...

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 canton. 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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's adoption of its own flag (while still part of the

), 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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Flags of the Dutch Caribbean National flags Flags introduced in 1984 Flags with blue, white and yellow

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