A strip of blue over red, a white square at its center, a palm tree standing guard over crossed rifles. That is the Haiti flag, and it carries more history in two colors than most flags carry in five. Born…
The Guatemala flag stands out the moment you see it. Two sky blue bands frame a white one, and a coat of arms carries firearms, feathers, and a strip of parchment right at the center. Most of Guatemala’s neighbors run…
Sur la plupart des drapeaux nationaux, chaque couleur raconte une idée abstraite, la liberté, le courage, l’unité. Sur celui de la Grenade, il y a en plus un détail que presque aucun autre pays au monde n’a osé mettre sur…
Two horizontal bands of deep blue framing a strip of white, and inside that white a small emblem packed with volcanoes, a rainbow and a golden motto. The El Salvador flag looks simple from a distance, but it carries almost…
It is the only national flag in the world with a Bible printed on it, open to a verse about truth. Fly over Santo Domingo’s Malecón or watch a baseball game in Washington Heights and you will see it everywhere,…
Somewhere between the airport and the first bend into the rainforest, most visitors catch their first glimpse of it: a deep green field with a cross of yellow, black and white, and a parrot inside a small red circle at…
In a rented room in New York, a woman named Emilia Teurbe Tolón sewed a flag for a country that did not exist yet as an independent nation. Three blue stripes, two white stripes, a red triangle, one white star.…
Every Costa Rica flag you see, from a schoolyard in San José to a surfboard sticker in Tamarindo, tells the same short story in five stripes. Blue, white, red, white, blue, with a red band twice as wide as the…
The Belize flag was not designed in a studio. It was negotiated between two rival political parties, and that single fact explains almost everything about it, from the colors to the red stripes added at the last minute before independence.…
Step off a plane in Bridgetown and the first thing you notice is not the heat. It is the flag snapping against a hard blue sky, gold at its center, a black trident with no handle. The Barbados flag is…
