South America
Uruguay
Nine alternating horizontal white and blue stripes with a white canton bearing the Sun of May. The current arrangement was established in 1830, replacing an earlier version with more stripes.
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Adopted
1830
Proportion
2:3
Colours
3
Colours & their meaning
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White
No official symbolism.
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Blue
No official symbolism.
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Yellow
Used in the Sun of May; no separate official colour meaning.
Symbols & emblems
Did you know?
Uruguay’s first national flag of 1828 had 19 stripes, but these were soon reduced to nine to make the design easier to distinguish at a distance.