Costa Rica

Timeline

1. 1823

   to 1824
   

   Early national flags adopted

   Costa Rica used a blue-yellow-blue triband before adopting a white flag with a red star in 1823.

   wikipedia.org · crwflags.com

2. 1824

   to 1840
   

   Federation-era flag adopted and revised

   Costa Rica adopted a federation-style blue-white-blue flag, whose central arms were changed on 2 and 22 November.

   crwflags.com · wikipedia.org

3. 1824

   to 1840
   

   Version used 1824–1840

   A blue-white-blue federation flag bearing Costa Rican state arms.

4. 1840

   to 1842
   

   White-blue-white flag adopted

   A new flag adopted on 21 April had white outer stripes and a blue central stripe bearing the state arms.

   crwflags.com

5. 1842

   to 1848
   

   Blue-white-blue flag restored

   A blue-white-blue flag with the state seal on its central white stripe returned to use after September 1842.

   crwflags.com · wikipedia.org

6. 1848

   to 1906
   

   Five-stripe flag adopted

   Pacífica Fernández’s blue-white-red-white-blue design was decreed on 29 September and first hoisted on 12 November.

   go.cr · crwflags.com

7. 1906

   to 1934

   State flag’s arms modified

   The coat of arms on the state flag was modified under the 1906 law; the plain five-stripe national flag remained unchanged.

   go.cr · crwflags.com