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Nicaragua

República de Nicaragua, Republic of Nicaragua

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by &#x017Deljko Heimer, 3 July 2002


Official Name: Republic of Nicaragua (Republica de Nicaragua)
Capital: Managua
Location: Central America
Government Type: Republic
Flag adopted: 27 August 1971 (First adopted 4 September 1908)
Coat of Arms adopted: 21 August 1823
ISO Code: NI



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The Flag

The blue-white-blue pattern is common to all the central American states, being a reminder of the union from the beginning of the 19th century. Each of the five original countries found a way to differentiate the flag. Costa Rica put a red stripe in the middle, Nicaragua and El Salvador their coats of arms, Honduras five stars, and Guatemala turned the stripes vertically. All of the states (except Guatemala) have common elements on their coat of arms - mountains (volcanoes) with a sea on each side, secessionist cap, spectrum, stars, and the inscription 'America Central'. The triangle symbolizes equality. Civilians on the land may use, also, the flag without the arms.
&#x017Deljko Heimer, 24 February 1996

From <www.foonet.net>:
The National Flag: The white stripe stands for the territory of our nation and represents the purity of our fatherland. The two blue stripes mean our territory is bathed by two oceans.
translated by Santiago Dotor, 4 January 1999

According to [smi75], Honduras entry (page 241) "The blue-white-blue horizontal striped flag of the United Provinces of the Center of America, based on the Argentine flag, was first hoisted in the independence struggle against Spain on 4 July 1818, when the commodore of the Argentine squadron, Louis Aury, proclaimed the first independent Central American state on islands off the eastern coast of Nicaragua. Aury's government lasted until 1821... ...(in 1823) when complete independence was established the new national flag had stripes similar to, and apparently based on, those of the first free state.."
Ned Smith, 14 May 1999

At "Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustre" (1924) - Nicaragua: An emblem without circle of text, without rays, with a sea in the foreground and a thin black line around the triangle to distinguish it from the white background.