Talk:Flag of Costa Rica

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While the flag itself has undergone many changes, especially those related to the coat of arms, the background is said to have been devised by the wife of Costa Ricas's first president Juan Rafael Mora Porras and is a homage to the flag of France. The coat of arms has been deprived of any military ornaments since the country has no army.

Also if looked carefully the coat shows seven stars, not five as other Central American coat of arms do, since ex-president Jose Figueres (an staunch enemy of Nicaragua's dictator Anastasio Somoza) decided to eliminate such an explicit reference to the country's past as an state within the Central American Federation, instead the seven stars stand for Costa Rica's seven provinces. Pabloalbv

[edit] Errors

Costa Rica's first president was not Juan Rafael Mora Porras and, strictly, Costa Rica doesn't have a coat of arms, but a shield. It would be difficult to call it a coat of arms considering that there aren't any arms in it, and the removal of the two stars of it was done by 1964, when the president of Costa Rica was Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich, and not Jose Figueres.--Ornitorrinco 21:52, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] State/Civil flag

The article says that is the civil flag and is the state flag. The vexillological symbols ( [state flag] and [civil flag]) say the opposite. Could someone clarify this? I would but I don't know which is right. 151.203.44.180 18:17, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Flag at all?

The article also states that there is only a civil "ensign", but not a flag, while the caption says that is the "flag and ensign"... What is the truth?... -- NIC1138 20:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)