Chile

Republic of Chile; República de Chile

Last modified: 2005-04-09 by antónio martins
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• Description of the flag
• Coat of arms

• Chilean subnational flags
• Governmental flags
  • Chilean flags of office
  • Flags of the Chilean Navy
  • Flags of the Chilean Army
  • Flags of the Chilean Air Force
• Historical flags of Chile
• Native peoples of Chile
• Political flags of Chile
• Sport flags of Chile
• Chilean civil flags at sea
• House flags of Chilean shipping companies

• http://members.forfree.at/~aire/chilesi.htm, with animated national flag and coat of arms.
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 31 Dec 1998

  reported broken by Ivan Sache, 22 Feb 2005

• http://www.gob.cl/Logo_Suanez.swf, hereʼs a nice Chile national flag related logo, in MacroMedia SockWave Flash format.
  reported by António Martins, 24 May 2002

Description of the flag

The Album 2000 [pay00] says (pages CH 1.1 & CH 1.2):

1. National flag. 2:3

On Album 2000 [pay00], page CH 1.1 (Chile), Fig. 1 (national flag) have additional black line around the blue field. No doubt, unintentionally.
Željko Heimer, 11 Jan 2001

Coat of arms

The presidential flag and Minister of Defence flag show the coat of arms overall.
António Martins, 16 May 2000

According to the Album [pay00], the star has eight black nervations. The bird has green feathers, a white “collar” and brown head (except the beak, which is yellow). The shield has a yellow fimbriation.
Ivan Sache, 09 Apr 2001

The motto says «Por la razón o la fuerza», translatable as «By right or might».
Santiago Dotor, 19 May 2000

If I recall correctly, both flags are equally acceptable without the ribbon with the motto.
Željko Heimer, 18 May 2000

The book [udk97] shows the scroll.
António Martins, 16 May 2000

Flaggenbuch 1905 [ruh05] dont have motto nor nervations, nor also Flaggenbuch 1925 [rwm26] and Flaggenbuch 1939 [neu39]. I believe that image is an error (using the arms without scroll from other flag, the presidential flag that is above in the same page) but can be also an older version. The presidential flag has the arms like the ones in Flaggenbuch 1905 (similar to the ones in 1939). The Ministry of Defense is a modern flag and the arms must be the modern ones and not the 1905 or 1939 ones.
Jaume Ollé, 28 May 2000, 12 Apr 2001 and 04 Oct 2002

The Chilean Army page on the national and army coats of arms, http://www.ejercito.cl/historia/emblemas.htm [broken link as of 22 Feb 2005, Ivan Sache], says the motto was added to the arms in 1920. Flaggenbuch 1925 [rwm26] and 1939 [neu39] may have been behind in their information, or perhaps the flags were not changed immediately when the COA was changed. The army page attributes the motto to Bernardo OʼHiggins, the father of Chilean independence.
Joe McMillan, 04 Oct 2002