Cuba's national flag has two white stripes.
The flag contains five equal horizontal stripes that alternate between three dark-blue stripes and two white stripes. A red equilateral triangle occupies the hoist, and a white five-pointed star sits inside the triangle. Counting only the horizontal bands therefore gives two white stripes, not five total stripes of one color.
The design is commonly called the Flag of the Lone Star, or Estrella Solitaria. Venezuelan-born independence activist Narciso López and writer Miguel Teurbe Tolón developed the design in the United States in 1849. Its five stripes and star became symbols of the Cuban independence movement and were later adopted as national symbols.
Cuba officially adopted the flag when it became an independent republic on 20 May 1902. The blue was later standardized as a darker indigo shade in 1906, but the basic layout remained unchanged. The three blue stripes are often associated with the divisions of Cuba that existed when the flag was designed, while the white stripes were linked to the purity of the independence cause.