Flag of Central America

Historical flags of Central America

Central America

Use| National flag and ensign
Proportion| 2:3
Adopted| 21 August 1823[1]
(modified in 1824)
Relinquished| 1839
Design| A blue and white horizontal triband with the coat of arms of Central America in the center

Central America was a unified nation at several points throughout its history, and while united, the country has used several national flags. The design of the Central American flag, a blue and white horizontal triband, was inspired by the flag of Argentina.[2][3]

## Flags

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Flag  | Adopted  | Relinquished  | Entity

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| 1609  | 1701  | Captaincy General of Guatemala (Spain)
| 1701  | 1760
| 1760  | 1785
| 1785  | 15 September 1821
| 5 January 1822  | 1 July 1823  | Captaincy General of Guatemala (Mexico)
| 21 August 1823  | 1824  | United Provinces of Central America
| 1824  | 1839  | Federal Republic of Central America
| 1 November 1898  | 29 November 1898  | Greater Republic of Central America
| 13 December 1991  | present | Central American Integration System

## See also

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* Flags of successor nations
* Flag of Costa Rica
* Flag of El Salvador
* Flag of Guatemala
* Flag of Honduras
* Flag of Nicaragua

## References

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### Citations

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1. ^ Meléndez Chaverri 2000, p. 277.
2. ^ Vítolo, Alfredo (15 February 2005). "Las Banderas Centroamericanas" [The Central American Flags]. La Nación (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 30 August 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
3. ^ "El Origen de las Banderas de Centroamérica, Inspiradas en la Bandera Argentina – Hipólito Bouchard" [The Origin of the Flags of Central America, Inspired by the Flag of Argentina – Hipólito Bouchard]. Puerto Vallarta News (in Spanish). 18 May 2010. Archived from the original on 8 January 2011.

### Bibliography

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* Meléndez Chaverri, Carlos (2000). José Matías Delgado, Prócer Centroamericano [José Matías Delgado, Central American Hero] (in Spanish). Vol. 8 (2nd ed.). San Salvador, El Salvador: Dirección de Publicaciones e Impresos. ISBN 9992300574. Retrieved 17 July 2022.

## Further reading

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* Horváth, Zoltán (12 August 2013). "Central America - Historical Unions and Federations". CRW Flags. Retrieved 22 October 2022.

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Federal Republic of Central America

Capital: Guatemala City (1823–1834), Sonsonate (1834), San Salvador (1834–1841)

History|

* Act of Independence of Central America
* Central America under Mexican rule
* Constitution of the Federal Republic of Central America
* First Central American Civil War
* Conservative invasion of 1831–1832
* Domínguez's expedition to Honduras
* Salvadoran campaign of 1832
* Anastasio Aquino's rebellion
* Second Central American Civil War

Politics|

* Currency
* Elections
* 1825
* 1830
* 1833
* 1835
* Federal government
* Flag
* National anthem
* President

States|

* Costa Rica
* El Salvador
* Federal District
* Guatemala
* Honduras
* Los Altos
* Nicaragua
* Claimed territories
* Belize
* Mosquito Coast

Foreign relations|

* Republic of Texas
* United States
* Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce, and Navigation

Related topics|

* Central American reunification
* Greater Republic of Central America

Category

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* British West Indies
* Danish West Indies
* Dutch Caribbean
* Caribbean Netherlands
* Netherlands Antilles
* French West Indies
* West Indies Federation

West
Indies|

| Antilles|

| Greater
Antilles|

* Cayman Islands
* Cuba
* Jamaica
* Navassa Island
* Puerto Rico

| Hispaniola|

* Dominican Republic
* Haiti

|

Lesser
Antilles|

| Leeward
Islands|

* Anguilla
* Antigua and Barbuda
* Guadeloupe
* La Désirade
* Les Saintes
* Marie-Galante
* Montserrat
* Saba^*
* Saint Barthélemy
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Sint Eustatius^*

| Saint Martin^|

* Collectivity of Saint Martin
* Sint Maarten

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Virgin Islands|

* British Virgin Islands
* U.S. Virgin Islands

Southern
Caribbean|

| Leeward
Antilles|

* Insular Venezuela
* Federal Dependencies
* Nueva Esparta

| ABC islands|

* Aruba
* Bonaire*
* Curaçao

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Windward
Islands|

* Dominica
* Grenada
* Carriacou and Petite Martinique
* Martinique
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

* Barbados†
* Trinidad and Tobago†

Lucayan
Archipelago|

* Bahamas
* Turks and Caicos Islands

Caribbean
Sea|

* Aves Island
* San Andrés and Providencia
* Bajo Nuevo Bank~
* Serranilla Bank~

Caribbean
continental
zone|

* Quintana Roo
* Cozumel

| Central America|

* Belize
* Honduras
* Bay Islands
* Izabal
* Limón
* Corn Islands
* North Caribbean Coast
* South Caribbean Coast
* Panama

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South America|

* Colombian Caribbean
* Venezuelan Caribbean

Wider
groupings
may include:|

* Bermuda#
* Costa Rica
* El Salvador
* Guatemala
* Nicaragua

| Yucatán Peninsula|

* Campeche
* Petén
* Yucatán

|

The Guianas|

* Amapá
* French Guiana
* Venezuelan Guayana
* Guyana
* Guayana Esequibaǂ
* Tigri Areaǂ
* Suriname

N.B.: Territories in italics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.

^These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which *the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands.

†Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.

ǂDisputed territories administered by Guyana. ~Disputed territories administered by Colombia.

#Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.

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Sovereign
states|

* Antigua and Barbuda
* Argentina
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Belize
* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Canada
* Chile
* Colombia
* Costa Rica
* Cuba
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* Ecuador
* El Salvador
* Grenada
* Guatemala
* Guyana
* Haiti
* Honduras
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Nicaragua
* Panama
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Suriname
* Trinidad and Tobago
* United States
* Uruguay
* Venezuela

Dependencies
and territories|

* Anguilla
* Aruba
* Bermuda
* Bonaire
* British Virgin Islands
* Cayman Islands
* Curaçao
* Falkland Islands
* French Guiana
* Greenland
* Guadeloupe
* Martinique
* Montserrat
* Puerto Rico
* Saba
* Saint Barthélemy
* Saint Martin
* Saint Pierre and Miquelon
* Sint Eustatius
* Sint Maarten
* South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
* Turks and Caicos Islands
* U.S. Virgin Islands

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*   *   *   * South America

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