Honduras

3×5' nylon national flag of Honduras.

The five stars on the flag of Honduras are a promise that has never been kept. They stand for the five nations of the old Federal Republic of Central America, and for the hope that one day they will unite again.

Design

Three equal horizontal bands of turquoise blue, white and turquoise blue, with five turquoise five-pointed stars arranged in an X at the center of the white band.

History & Symbolism

The flag was adopted on 16 February 1866. The blue bands stand for the Pacific and the Caribbean, and the white for peace and for the land between them. The five stars represent Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. In 2022 a new law fixed the blue as turquoise, closer to the shade of the original nineteenth-century flag than the navy often seen in the twentieth.

Flag Specifications

• Adopted: 16 February 1866; shade revised 2022
• Official proportions: 1:2
• Colors: turquoise blue, white
• Emblem: five stars

Vexillographer's Note

Many Honduran flags in circulation still show navy blue. The turquoise version is the current legal standard.

Humphrys Flag Company · Old City Philadelphia · Est. 1864