KBC 14: Which country has 27 stars on its flag?
Brazil
Mexico
Chile
Sweden
Answer: Brazil
Brazil has 27 stars on its flag.
The 27 stars on the flag currently represent all 26 of Brazil’s states as well as the federal district. The stars of the Brazilian flag were not automatically changed when individual territories were elevated to statehood, unlike the stars in the American flag.
The Brazilian national flag, or bandeira do Brasil in Portuguese, is a blue disc with the words “Ordem e Progresso” (“Order and Progress”) inscribed on a curved band that is enclosed in a yellow rhombus on a green background. Four days after the Republic’s Proclamation, on November 15, 1889, it was formally adopted to take the place of the Brazilian Empire’s flag. Raimundo Teixeira Mendes came up with the idea, and Miguel Lemos, Manuel Pereira Reis, and Decio Villares helped out.
The previous imperial flag’s green field and yellow parallelogram were kept (though slightly modified in hue and shape). The colors green and yellow on the imperial flag stood for the House of Braganza of Pedro I, the first Emperor of Brazil, and the House of Habsburg of his wife, Empress Maria Leopoldina. The Empire of Brazil’s coat of arms was replaced by a blue circle with white five-pointed stars, whose placement on the flag corresponds to the sky over Rio de Janeiro on November 15, 1889. The positivist maxim “L’amour pour principe et l’ordre pour base; le progrès pour but” is the source of the motto Ordem e Progresso (“Love as a principle and order as the basis; progress as the goal”).
According to Brazilian Law, the flag must be modified in the event that a state is created or goes extinct. Each star, which represents a Brazilian Federal Unit, is scaled proportionately to its geographic size. The flag had 21 stars when it was initially adopted in 1889. The state of Guanabara was added as one more star in 1960, Acre as another in 1968, and ultimately Amapá, Roraima, Rondônia, and Tocantins as four more in 1992, giving it a total of 27 stars in its current form.
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