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The flag of the U.S. state of Texas is similar to the Chilean flag. The flag of Texas was designed and adopted on 25 January 1839; whereas Chile adopted a flag similar to today's Chilean flag 22 years earlier on 18 October 1817. Nearly two decades before the then-national flag was approved by the Texas Congress and President Mirabeau B. Lamar.
This emblem, like the first Chilean flag, was initially exclusively for army use. In Chile, the Spanish emblems were still used at the time of the Chilean War of Independence. When the Spanish army arrived in Chile in 1813, with the goal of reconquering the country, the first independent emblems were adopted as national symbols. [1]
Presidential flag: A flag of Chile with the Chilean coat of arms in the center. Ambassador flag A blue flag with white and red nordic cross and a white star in the canton. Used as a pennant on a car. Flag of the Ministry of National Defense: A dark blue flag with the Chilean coat of arms in the center.
Other theories say Chile may derive its name from a Native American word meaning either 'ends of the earth' or 'sea gulls'; [25] from the Mapuche word chilli, which may mean 'where the land ends'" [26] or from the Quechua chiri, [27] 'cold', [28] or tchili, meaning either 'snow' [28] [29] or "the deepest point of the Earth". [30]
Five unequal horizontal bands; the top-most band of blue - equal to one half the width of the flag - is followed by three bands of white, red, and white, each equal to 1/12 of the width, and a bottom stripe of blue equal to one quarter of the flag width; a circle of 10 yellow, five-pointed stars is centered on the red stripe and positioned 3/8 ...
A flag is a distinctive piece of fabric used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. While the origin of flags is unknown, flag-like symbols have been described as far back as 11th century BC China and have been used by other ancient civilisations such as Egypt and Rome.
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The territory of Chile has been populated since at least 3000 BC. By the 16th century, Spanish invaders began to raid the region of present-day Chile, and the territory was a colony from 1540 to 1818, when it gained independence from Spain.