South American Flags

South American flags share a striking number of visual cousins, the legacy of Simón Bolívar's 19th-century independence movement. Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela all carry the same yellow-blue-red horizontal tricolor — same colors, same order — distinguished only by their coats of arms or the proportions of the bands (Colombia: yellow on top is double-width; Ecuador and Venezuela: equal bands with national emblems). Bolivia and Peru both feature red-white-red vertical or horizontal arrangements; Argentina and Uruguay both use sky-blue and white with a "Sun of May" emblem, the Argentine sun centered on white, the Uruguayan sun in the canton with alternating white-and-blue stripes. Brazil's green-yellow with a blue celestial globe + "Ordem e Progresso" banner is the most internationally recognised of the twelve. Chile's red-white-blue with a single five-pointed star is sometimes confused with the Texas state flag (the resemblance is not historical). The three Guianas stand apart visually: Guyana's "Golden Arrowhead" (green field, red triangle, gold chevron), Suriname's red-green horizontal bands with a centered yellow star, and Paraguay (technically not a Guiana — interior southern country) carries the unusual distinction of being one of the few national flags with different obverse and reverse sides. This hub ships in two modes: type the country from the flag (type-in) and pick the right country from four choices (multiple choice). Both modes cover all 12 South American states. Start with multiple choice — the Bolivarian tricolor family makes type-in genuinely punishing on cold attempts.