Curaçao
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Curaçao's flag features a blue field with a horizontal yellow stripe in the lower third and two white five-pointed stars in the upper left canton. The blue represents the Caribbean Sea and sky, the yellow stripe represents the tropical sun, and the two stars represent the island of Curaçao and the small uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao.
The island's name may derive from the Portuguese word for 'heart' (coração) or from the Spanish word for 'cure' (curación), as sailors recovered from scurvy there thanks to the island's citrus fruits.
Adopted: 1984
