Costa Rica

Last modified: 1997-12-03 by alexandre voscorian
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by mark sensen

• Description of the flag
• United States of Central America

• Flag used between 1821-1822
• Flags used in 1823
• Flag used in 1824
• Flags used between 1838-1848

On November 27 1906 was adopted the current pattern, horizontally blue,white,red,white and blue, with proportions aprox. 1:1:2:1:1 and 2:3 proportions, with shield within a white oval near the hoist in the red stripe. The proportions were changed from 1:2 to 2:3. Only a minor modification was made on October 21 1964, when the six stars of the shield were converted to seven stars.

Zeljko Heimer and Jaume Ollé 26-AUG-1996

The flags of Honduras,Nicaragua, Salvador and Costa Rica are all based on the blue-white-blue tricolour of the United States of Central America, which was dissolved 1838-9.
paul adams 29-NOV-1995

Costa Rica put the red in [in 1848] to differentiate it from the other three with the horizontal blue stripes; Guatemala turned the stripes and made them vertical. At one time in the 19th century Costa Rica used blue flag with a thin white cross with a red canton and several stars (no clue as to the number).
john andrew lowe 29-NOV-1995