Honduras is a Central American country with coastlines on the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific, home to Copán — one of the most important archaeological sites of the ancient Maya, known for its elaborately carved stelae and hieroglyphic stairway. The Bay Islands off the Caribbean coast are renowned for scuba diving due to their position on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. Honduras is one of Central America's most biodiverse countries.
Population and area are rounded.
The blue stripes represent the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, and the white the land and peace between them. The five stars stand for the five members of the former Federal Republic of Central America and the hope that they will unite again. The flag was adopted in 1866, and in 2022 Honduras changed the blue to turquoise.
Honduras celebrates Flag Day on 1 September and Independence Day on 15 September, the anniversary of Central America's independence from Spain in 1821. The five stars reflect the Central American federation that Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica formed after independence. Honduras is home to the Maya city of Copán.
Horizontal blue-white-blue with five blue stars in the white stripe.
Honduras is home to Copán, one of the most important Maya archaeological sites in the world.
Honduras' flag is often mixed up with these. Learn to tell them apart:
Every flag that has flown over Honduras, from today back through time.
Honduras's flag directly inherits the Central American Federal Republic's blue-white-blue horizontal tricolor. The five blue stars added in 1866 represent the five original nations of the Federal Republic — a quiet expression of the old dream of Central American unity. Honduras has held these colours continuously since the federation's collapse, with only the star design changing.
Honduras was one of five founding members of the Federal Republic of Central America (1823–1839). The federation's horizontal blue-white-blue tricolor became the visual template for every Central American country's flag. When the federation fragmented, each state kept some variant of the design — making Central American flags a uniquely coherent family among the world's national flags.
Empires, kingdoms and republics that once covered part of Honduras.
Its blue-white-blue stripes survive almost unchanged in the flags of Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. White stood for the land between the two oceans.
The first union of the Central American provinces after independence from Mexico, flying the blue-white-blue bands that preceded the Federal Republic and survive in five modern flags.
A short-lived attempt to reunify Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador; its blue-white-blue flag carried five volcanoes and stars before the union dissolved within two years.
The 4 states, provinces and regions of Honduras with their own flags.
Atlántida
Copán
Olancho
Santa BárbaraHonduras shares a land border with 3 countries: El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
9 other national flags use the same main colours as Honduras'.
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