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The flag of Chile consists of two equal-height horizontal bands of white and red, with a blue square the same height as the white band in the canton, which bears a white five-pointed star in the center. It was adopted on 18 October 1817. The Chilean flag is also known in Spanish as La Estrella Solitaria [1] (The Lone Star).
The coat of arms of Chile dates from 1834 and was designed by the English artist Charles Wood Taylor (1792–1856). It is made up by a figurative background divided in two equal parts: the top one is blue and the bottom, red. A five pointed white star is in the centre of the shield.
The flag of Chile, introduced in 1817, has a single five-pointed star known as La Estrella Solitaria (The Lone Star). The similar flag of Texas was introduced in 1839. The star and crescent used by the Ottoman Empire was shown with an eight-pointed stars in early forms (18th century), but was changed to a five-pointed star in the official flag ...
Similar to flags of Texas, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, and to actual ensign for Chilean Independence flag, with the coat of arms in the center, and a black eight-pointed star within the white five-pointed star. 1818–1912 National flag Design of the flag with the star tilted. 1818–1819 1820–1825 Flag of the United Provinces
This is a list of flags, arranged by design, serving as a navigational aid for identifying a given flag.Uncharged flags are flags that either are solid or contain only rectangles, squares and crosses but no crescents, circles, stars, triangles, maps, flags, coats of arms or other objects or symbols.
Australia (one 5-pointed star, five 7-pointed stars) Stars and stripes. Stars and alternating stripes Catalonia ... Chile Greece Liberia ...
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The obverse of the badge consists of a five-point star (point upwards) surmounted with a small loop ring, to fasten the ribbon, each point ending in a ball finial. Upon the center of the star is attached a disc comprising a circlet surrounding a central disc. The circlet is inscribed with the text LEGION DE MERITO DE CHILE.