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Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country in the Caribbean. It comprises the eponymous main island as well as 4,195 islands, islets, and cays. Situated at the convergence of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean, Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula, south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola, and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Cuba is the largest country in the Caribbean by area and the third-largest by population, after Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Culturally, Cuba is considered to be part of Latin America. Its capital and largest city is Havana.
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History
The national flag of Cuba, also known as the Flag of the Lone Star, consists of five alternating stripes and a cherry red chevron at the hoist, within which is a white five-pointed star. It was designed in 1849 and officially adopted May 20, 1902. The flag is referred to as the Estrella Solitaria, or the Lone Star flag. Vexillologist Alfred Znamierowski assigns the flag to his Stars and Stripes flag family.
Design & symbolism
The Cuban flag is at a length-to-width ratio of 2:1. It is made up of five alternating horizontal stripes, three blue and two white. These blue and white stripes are of equal width. Since 1906, the color of blue is specified as azul turquí, a dark, saturated blue such as indigo or Prussian blue. The star within the red equilateral triangle has a diameter that is 1⁄3 the length of the hoist, and its center is the center of the triangle.
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