Thread: What's the meaning of the brazilian flag?

cam you explain the colours and graphics of the brazilian flag? What represents the blue, green and yellow?

The flag of Brazil was adopted on 19 November 1889 and is based on a green rectangle with proportions of 7:10 placed with a yellow diamond that falls across a blue circle on a white label with the words "Order and Progress" in green letters, and 27 white stars. The brazilian flag is one of the few national flags in the world who have no black or red, usually associated with war and blood. But the flag of Brazil is not only made of beauty, it itself has a meaning embedded in their colors over the years has been changing, see the year 1822, the green flag symbolizes the house of Braganza, which was part D. Pedro I, in reference to the personal banner of D. Pedro II of Portugal, while yellow symbolizes the house of Habsburg, which was part of the Leopoldina, since the diamond is a heraldic symbol attached to females, reinforcing the association with the empress.

And even with the passing years, today has not been issued a decree that officially define the meanings of each color and shape, being however, the widespread interpretation that the green represents the forests, the yellow and blue ores and the sky the stars is a representation of the States forming the Union and the white band are in agreement, respectively with the stars in the sky and azimuth carioca Morning November 15, 1889.

The inscription "Order and Progress", always green, is the political motto of positivism, abbreviated form of the motto written by the French positivist Auguste Comte "Love as a principle and based on Order and Progress by End. "

Yes, each color and graphic means the excellent wealth and natural resources of Brazil, our wealth.

For example:

The yellow diamond represents the gold, gem, minerals, etc. Brazil is very rich in gems and minerals. The yellow color also means our wealth and rich resources;

The green square means our extensive forests, and the extensive farmlands, such as Amazon Forest and the Central states. Brazil has an extensive farmland, where all you sow, goes strongly ahead. The green color also means the feeling of hope;

The pie chart in blue means the beautiful and clear Brazilian sky, and it represents the 365 sunny days in North and Northeast regions, and the 27 white stars into the blue circle represent represent each of the 27 states of Brazil. The blue color also means success, prosperity;

The white band (track) into the blue circle has the following sentence: "Order and Progress" as an historical Brazilian slogan.

The white collor in the flag also means peace. Yes, Brazil is a politically country which lives in peace to all countries in the world.

Honestly, the Brazilian flag consists of a green base with a large yellow rhombus (diamond shape) in the middle of it. Inside the rhombus is a blue circle with white stars of different sizes. There is a white banner running through the circle and on it is a motto which reads "Ordem e Progresso" which translates in English to "Order and Progress".

The flag is green, symbolic of Brazil's lush fields and forests. Its primary feature is a large yellow diamond, symbolic of Brazil's wealth in gold, and in its center floats a blue celestial globe. It includes 27 white five-pointed stars (one for each state and the Federal District) arranged in the same pattern as the night sky over Brazil. The globe displays a white equatorial band with the motto ORDEM E PROGRESSO translation = (Order and Progress.)