The flag of Easter Island first flew in public, alongside the Chilean flag, on 9 May 2006. Easter Island is a special territory of Chile. Adorning the flag’s white field is a red Reimiro, an ornament worn around the chest. The Reimiro … served as an insignia of high rank, and the paramount chief of […]
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Flag of Chile
The flag of Chile, as La Estrella Solitaria (The Lone Star), is approaching its bicentenary. Chile adopted the flag on 18 October 1817, roughly five months before declaring independence from Spain. Only the flags of Denmark (1370), the Netherlands (1572), UK (1606) and USA (1777) have an older adoption date. The flag is very similar […]
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