Curaçao’s flag has two white stars in its canton.
The stars are placed in the upper hoist-side corner, or canton, of the blue flag. They are different sizes: the larger star represents Curaçao, while the smaller represents Klein Curaçao, the uninhabited island lying southeast of Curaçao.
The five points of each star symbolize the five continents from which Curaçao’s people are said to descend. The flag’s blue field represents the sea and sky, while the yellow stripe suggests the bright Caribbean sun. A common mix-up is counting the yellow stripe or mistaking the stars for a constellation; only the two white stars belong to the canton design.
Curaçao’s flag was adopted in 1984, after a public design process that began following Aruba’s adoption of its own flag. It represented Curaçao within the Netherlands Antilles until that entity was dissolved in 2010, and it remains the island country’s national flag.