El Salvador (1865/1912)

Last modified: 1997-09-03 by filip van laenen
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• Description of the flags
• Reason for the changes

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• El Salvador
• United States

I read in a book recently that for a brief period in the late 19th century, El Salvador abandoned the horizontal blue-white-blue that they bore as a Province of a United Central America, and adopted a flag that was almost identical to the U.S. flag.

Steve Kramer, 1996-APR-26

From 1865-1912 the El Salvadorean flag had nine horizontal stripes, alternating blue and white. A red canton carried 9 stars (from 1865 until 1875) and then 14 stars in three rows of 4-3-4-3 stripes.

Stuart A. Notholt, 1996-APR-28

Clearly this flag was based on the stars and stripes, although it was by no means "almost identical" to the US flag. The original flag was re-adopted in 1912.

Stuart A. Notholt, 1996-APR-28