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Flag of Bonaire. A large blue triangle and a smaller yellow triangle, separated by a white strip containing a black compass and a red six-pointed star. 1985–present. Flag of Saba. Two equal red triangles at the top and two equal blue triangles at the bottom, with a white diamond with yellow star in the middle.
The national flag of the Netherlands (Dutch: de Nederlandse vlag) is a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. The current design originates as a variant of the late 16th century orange-white-blue Prinsenvlag ("Prince's Flag"), evolving in the early 17th century as the red-white-blue Statenvlag ("States Flag"), the naval flag of the States-General of the Dutch Republic, making the Dutch ...
National symbols of the Netherlands. Symbols of the Netherlands are items or symbols that have symbolic meaning to, or represent, the Netherlands .There symbols are seen in official capacities, such as flags, coats of arms, postage stamps, and currency, and in URLs. They appear less formally as recurring themes in literature, art and folk art ...
The coat of arms of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was originally adopted in 1815 and later modified in 1907. The arms are a composite of the arms of the former Dutch Republic and the arms of the House of Nassau, it features a checkered shield with a lion grasping a sword in one hand and a bundle of arrows in the other and is the heraldic symbol of the monarch (King Willem-Alexander) and the ...
Design. Vertical tricolor (red-black-red) with three white saltires in the black band. Flying flag of Amsterdam. The flag of Amsterdam is the official flag for Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. The current design of the flag depicts three Saint Andrew's Crosses and is based on the escutcheon in the coat of arms of Amsterdam.
The flag of Paraguay ( Spanish: bandera de Paraguay; Guarani: Paraguái poyvi) was first adopted in 1842. [ 1] Its design, a red–white–blue triband, was inspired by the colours of the French Tricolour, believed to signify independence and liberty. The flag is unusual because it differs on its obverse and reverse sides: the obverse of the ...
The colours and symbols of the flag carry cultural, political, and regional meanings. The blue represents the sea and the sky, while the red epitomises the blood of Sint Maarteners. The green on the coat of arms stands for the fertility of the land, while the yellow represents the energy of the islanders.
Spectators waving French flags (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP - Getty Images) According to Kaye, red, white and blue dominate flags due to dye technology, imitation and symbolic meanings. Historically ...