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I now have good information about the flag of the former state of Guanabara,
sent to me by my friend Carlos Noronha of Vitória (Espírito Santo, Brazil).
He scanned a flag of Guanabara, and I produced the image.
Jaume Ollé, 17 August 1996
Guanabara state in Brazil had the same flag as Rio de Janeiro City. The latter
was published in
Gaceta de Banderas #65, sourced to Michel Lupant, but I believe
that image has a small mistake. In the arms of the flag of Guanabara state, there's a
white star in front of the mural crown. In the arms in the flag of the City of Rio de
Janeiro, this star must be suppressed (although it is shown in Gaceta).
Jaume Ollé, 24 January 2001
The muncipal flag of Rio de Janeiro was adopted in the year 1908. The State of
Guanabara had the same flag, supplemented with the white star on the mural crown.
Jens Pattke, 6 April 2001
This image shows the Guanabara flag with the blue and gold version of the municipal coat of arms. But the red
version of the coat of arms was on the flag of the old federal district of Rio de Janeiro, which
became Guanabara when the capital was moved. Why would the design of the flag shift to blue at that point? Especially considering that the modern
flag of the Rio municipality, since Guanabara's merger into the consolidated state of Rio de Janeiro,
is also with the red coat of arms.
Joseph McMillan, 15 October 2002
In 1960, Brasília was inaugurated as the new capital, in a new federal district. Not knowing what to do administratively with the city of Rio, which h
![[Former State of Guanabara (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-rj-gu.gif)
