Uruguay Flag

How to identify it

Nine alternating white and blue horizontal stripes, with a golden sun bearing a face in the white square at the upper left.

Design and construction

Adoption and legal status

The first 1828 flag had nineteen stripes; a law in 1830 reduced the number to the present nine.

History of the design

The nine stripes recall the original departments, while the upper flagpole canton contains the Sun of May.

Similar flags

Compare the details that separate these designs.

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  Argentina

  Argentina has three broad bands and centres its sun; Uruguay uses nine narrow stripes and places its sun at the upper left.

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