Flag of Curaçao
Officially Country of Curaçao
Locally Kòrsou
What the flag looks like
A blue field with a horizontal yellow stripe just below the middle and two white five-pointed stars in the upper hoist, the smaller one nearer the corner.
What it means
Blue stands for the sea and sky and yellow for the sun; the two stars are Curaçao and its uninhabited neighbour Klein Curaçao, and their five points recall the five continents its people came from.
How to remember it
Curaçao
is a deep blue flag cut by one yellow line, with two white stars, one big and one small, floating above it like the island and its little sister.
Fun facts
- Curaçao celebrates Flag Day on 2 July, the date the flag was adopted in 1984.
- It became a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 10 October 2010, when the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved.
Curaçao at a glance
- Status
- Constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Sovereign state
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Capital
- Willemstad
- Region
- Constituent country of the Netherlands
- Population
- 155,000
- Area
- 444 km²
- Languages
- Papiamento, Dutch, English
- Currency
- Caribbean guilder (Cg)
- Flag adopted
- 1984
Flags often confused with Curaçao
- Aruba: 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.