Brazil flag
Nicknames: A Auriverde ("The Gold and Green") Verde e Amarela ("The Green and Yellow") |
Designer: Raimundo Teixeira Mendes |
Adopted: 19 November 1889 (21-star version) 11 May 1992 (current 27-star version) |
Proportion: 7 : 10 |
National flag of Brazil is a green field with a large yellow rhombus in the center, bearing a blue disk which forms a celestial globe depicting twenty-seven small white five-pointed stars spanned by a white equatorial curved band with the National Motto Ordem E Progresso (meaning 'Order and Progress') written in green. |
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