Flags of Brazil

The colors of yellow and green on the Brazilian flag are thought to represent the richness of natural resources in Brazil. Green for the extensive forests and yellow for the gold reserves. The two colors also represented two imperial families that existed when Brazil was an empire. The centre of the old imperial flag bore the Imperial Coat of Arms.




On the current Brazilian flag, a blue circle has replaced the Coat of Arms representing the blue sky over Rio de Janeiro on the day Brazil declared itself a Republic. Later the country consolidated into a federation of states and decided to put stars on the flag representing each state, modeled after the flag of the United States. Ordem e Progresso (Order and Progress) is the motto of Brazil and is now stretched acorss the current flag as well.