Flag of Aruba
What the flag looks like
A light blue field with two narrow parallel yellow stripes across the lower part and a white-edged red four-pointed star in the upper hoist corner.
What it means
Blue stands for the sea and sky and yellow for the sun and prosperity; the star is the island itself, its four points for the points of the compass, its red for the soil and its white edge for the beaches.
How to remember it
Aruba
is a sky-blue flag with a red four-pointed star in the corner and two thin yellow lines running along the bottom, like a sunlit horizon.
Fun facts
- The flag was adopted on 18 March 1976, which Aruba celebrates every year as National Anthem and Flag Day.
- Aruba left the Netherlands Antilles in 1986 to become a separate country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Aruba at a glance
- Status
- Constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Sovereign state
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Capital
- Oranjestad
- Region
- Constituent country of the Netherlands
- Population
- 107,000
- Area
- 180 km²
- Languages
- Dutch, Papiamento
- Currency
- Aruban florin (ƒ)
- Flag adopted
- 1976
Flags often confused with Aruba
- Curaçao: Aruba and Curaçao are both blue with yellow horizontal lines low down and stars near the hoist. Aruba is light blue with two yellow lines and one red four-pointed star; Curaçao is dark blue with one yellow stripe and two white five-pointed stars.