Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #009440
- #ffcb00
- #302681
Other flags with blue, green or yellow or all of blue, green and yellow at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- a single-coloured ground
The fly edge and the foot are one colour, and the same one, whatever else is drawn on top of it.
What is on it
Each of these is what this flag's own Wikipedia article says is on it, the sentence is underneath, so you can see what it rests on.
- star
Each star corresponds to a Brazilian Federal Unit and is sized according to the apparent magnitude of the corresponding real star.
Flag of Brazil on Wikipedia
- writing
The national flag of Brazil is a blue disc depicting a starry sky (which includes the Southern Cross) spanned by a curved band inscribed with the national motto Ordem e Progresso (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɔʁdẽj i pɾoˈɡɾɛsu]) ('Order and Progress'), within a yellow rhombus on a green field.
Flag of Brazil on Wikipedia
- globe or map
The last change was held on May 11, 1992, Law No. 8.421, altered the celestial globe with the addition of six stars.
Flag of Brazil on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted 1889
Green and gold of the imperial houses, a starry sky over Rio on 15 Nov 1889 (one star per state), and 'Ordem e Progresso'.
Source: Flag of Brazil on Wikipedia.
Its days
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on 6 of them, with the sentence that says so.
Nearest in the world
Every flag is compared with every other one, off the pictures themselves. Two copies of one picture score 0; these are the closest to this one. How that is measured.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Brazil is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1000 × 700
Credit Raimundo Teixeira Mendes
From Flag of Brazil.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
