Honduras

The flag of Honduras consists of three equal horizontal bands of turquoise (top), white, and turquoise (bottom) with five turquoise five-pointed stars arranged in an X pattern centered in the white band.Flag of Honduras at CIA World Factbook
September 1 is celebrated in Honduras as Flag Day (prior to 1995 it was celebrated on June 14).
The national flag is also used as civil and state ensign. For military ships a version of the flag with the national coat of arms instead of the five stars is used.
After the inauguration of President Xiomara Castro on 27 January 2022, the government began to fly flags with turquoise stripes instead of cerulean blue stripes.
==Symbolism==
The flag uses a blue-white-blue colour scheme, common for the Central American nations. Ultimately it's based on the flag of Argentina, one of the earliest Spanish colonies to proclaim independence. The white stripe between two blue stripes generally are interpreted as representation of the Central American isthmus between two oceans.
The five stars represent the five original provinces of the Central American Federation.
== Nickname ==
* Five Blue Stars
** Cinco estrellas azules
==History==
Honduras left the Central American Federation in October 1838, but continued to use its flag till March 1866. When the image of the coat of arms was replaced with five stars. It was not strictly specified how these stars should have been arranged though, and different variants of the national flag were used:
File:Flag of Honduras (1839-1866).svg|Honduras (1839-1866)
File:Honduras (variant 1).svg|Honduras (1866-1949) (original), (variant) (1949-2022)
File:Honduras (variant 2).svg|Honduras variant (1949-2022)
File:Honduras (1949-2018).svg|Honduras(1949-2018)
File:Honduras (2018-2022).svg|Honduras (2018-2022)
File:Honduras (2022).svg|Honduras(2022-present)
Strict design of the flag was specified by a law on January 26, 1949.
==Flag Colors==
Color	Color Name 	HEX 	Color of
 	Cyan (Proces)	#00bce4	The top and bottom bands, the stars
 	White 	#ffffff	White part of the triband
==References==
Category:Central America
Category:North America
Category:Proportions 1-2
Category:Honduras
Category:Blue
Category:White
Category:Stars
Category:2022