What color is the canton of the flag of Chile?

The canton of the flag of Chile is blue. It is the square in the upper hoist-side corner—the upper-left corner when the flag is viewed from the front—and it contains a single white five-pointed star.

Chile’s flag consists of two equal horizontal bands: white above red. The blue canton occupies the hoist-side portion of the white band and is square, with the same height as that band. Together, the blue, white, and red fields form the design popularly known as La Estrella Solitaria, or “The Lone Star.”

The current flag was made official on 18 October 1817 and presented publicly during the independence celebrations of 1818. Common interpretations connect blue with the sky and Pacific Ocean, white with the snow-covered Andes, and red with the blood shed during the struggle for independence.

The star is often mistaken for the canton’s color because it is the most visually prominent feature in that corner. However, the canton itself is blue; the star is a separate white symbol. Chile’s flag is also sometimes confused with Texas’s flag, which has a similar blue canton and lone star but a different overall layout.