What color is the single horizontal stripe on Curaçao's flag? Yellow. The stripe runs across the blue field slightly below the center of the flag.
Curaçao adopted its flag on 2 July 1984, after a design process that began with roughly 2,000 submissions. The blue field represents the sea and sky, while the bright yellow stripe symbolizes the sunlight that bathes the island.
The flag also carries two white five-pointed stars in the canton. They represent Curaçao and Klein Curaçao, the two islands belonging to the country. The stars' five points are traditionally associated with the five continents from which Curaçao's people descend.
A common mix-up is to remember the flag's dominant blue and white elements but overlook the narrow stripe. It is yellow, not white or red; the white appears in the two stars. The stripe's position and proportions are also deliberate, with the blue-yellow-blue bands arranged asymmetrically rather than as equal horizontal stripes.