Editing Flag of Chile (section)

==Similar flags==
The flag of the U.S. state of [[Texas]] is similar to the Chilean flag. The [[flag of Texas]] was designed and adopted on 25 January 1839; whereas Chile adopted a flag similar to today's Chilean flag 22 years earlier on 18 October 1817. Nearly two decades before the then-national flag was approved by the Texas Congress and President Mirabeau B. Lamar. Texas' current flag is not a copied version of the Chilean flag, contrary to popular belief.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} 

Like Texas, on 17 January 1840; a coalition of nobles from the [[Mexican states]] of [[Coahuila]], [[Nuevo León]], and [[Tamaulipas]] advocated secession from [[Mexico]] to form their own federal republic called the [[Republic of the Rio Grande]] with [[Laredo, Texas|Laredo]] (today part of Texas) as the capital but unlike Texas, was never formally recognized and ended on 6 November of the same year. Its flag was similar to that of Texas' in that there were three stars with a red hoist, and black and white bars on the side instead of one star with a blue hoist and white and red bars.

In 1822 during the [[Peruvian War of Independence]], troops from both the [[Liberating Expedition of Peru]] (''Expedición Libertadora del Perú'') and the [[United Liberating Army of Peru]] (''Ejército Unido Libertador del Perú'') used a standard that was identical to the modern flag of Chile, except their flag had three stars in the canton (mostly forming the [[Triangulum Australe]] constellation), representing the three nations united by the cause of independence: the [[Argentina|Argentine]] provinces, Chile and [[Peru]].

On the other hand, the Chilean flag would have served as inspiration for the supporters of [[Cuban independence]] at the start the [[Ten Years' War]] in the so-called War [[Cry of Yara]] (Spanish: ''Grito de Yara'') in 1868. The leader of this revolution, [[Carlos Manuel de Céspedes]], would have been inspired to create the first [[Cuban flag]] named ''La Demajagua'' in honor of the place where the revolt began. Two main differences are that the red and blue colors are inverted and that the red canton extends to the middle of the fly instead of one-third as on the Chilean flag.

Céspedes would have been inspired by the Chilean flag as a way of honoring the efforts of [[Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna]] on behalf of Chile to achieve independence of Cuba after the Spanish defeat in the [[Chincha Islands War]].<ref name="CubanFlag">{{cite web|url=http://www.cubanuestra.nu/web/article.asp?artID=5616 |title=Chile and the independence of Cuba II |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080405121301/http://www.cubanuestra.nu/web/article.asp?artID=5616 |archive-date=5 April 2008 }}</ref> According to Cespedes's son, his father "imagined a new flag that bore the same colors as that of the Carreras and O'Higgins and that would differentiate itself from the disposition of those colors."<ref name="Yara">{{Cite book|author=Céspedes, Carlos Manuel de |year=1929 |title= Las banderas de Yara y Bayamo |location=Paris |quote="imaginó una bandera nueva, que luciendo los mismos colores y forma de la de Carreras {{sic}} y O'Higgins se diferenciase de ésta en la disposición de aquellos"|language=es}}</ref> However, the flag would not have much success, and an earlier design would become the definitive Cuban flag.

The [[flag of Liberia]], founded in 1847, also includes a single star on the canton, but it has multiple horizontal stripes similar to the United States Flag.

Also, the [[Flag of Malacca]], a state in [[Malaysia]], is similar, having the same colors (except the yellow star and moon) and a similar canton design, although the proportions and color order are different.

The state of [[Amazonas (Brazilian state)|Amazonas]] in Brazil also adopted a similar flag in 1982. Its flag also has an elongated blue canton with multiple stars.

The [[Catamarca Province|Catamarca province]] in Argentina adopted a flag in 2011 that has nearly the same color design, but the blue is paler, and with a yellow border and a sun with two olive branches in the center.

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|File:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg|alt2=Flag of the United States|[[Flag of the United States]] (1960)
|File:Flag of the Liberating Expedition of Peru.svg|alt3=Flag of the Liberating Expedition of Peru (1820)|Flag of the [[Freedom Expedition of Perú|Liberating Expedition of Peru]] (1820)
|File:Flag of the Republic of the Rio Grande.svg|[[Flag of the Republic of the Rio Grande]] (1840)
|File:Naval Jack of Cuba.svg|alt4=Flag of Cuba (1868)|[[Flag of Cuba]] used in the [[Ten Years' War]] (1868)
|File:CSA FLAG 4.3.1861-21.5.1861.svg|alt5=First flag of the Confederate States of America "Stars and Bars" (1861)|First [[flag of the Confederate States of America]] "Stars and Bars" (1861)
|File:Flag of Liberia.svg|alt6=Flag of Liberia (1847)|[[Flag of Liberia]] (1847)
|File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg|[[Flag of the Czech Republic]] (1993), previously [[Czechoslovakia]] (1920–1992)
|File:Flag of Yugoslavia (1918–1941; 1992–2006) (3-5).svg|[[Flag of Serbia and Montenegro]] (1992–2006), previously [[Yugoslavia]] (1918–1941)
|File:Flag of Poland.svg|[[Flag of Poland]] (1980)
|File:Bandera_de_la_Provincia_de_Catamarca.svg|Flag of [[Catamarca province]]
|File:Bandeira do Amazonas.svg|alt8=Flag of the Brazilian state of Amazonas (1982)|Flag of the [[Brazil]]ian state of [[Amazonas (Brazilian state)|Amazonas]] (1982)
|File:Flag of Malacca.svg|alt7=Flag of Malaysian state of Malacca|[[Flag of Malacca|Flag]] of the [[Malaysia]]n state of [[Malacca]]
|File:Flag of Malaysia.svg|Flag of [[Malaysia]] (1963)
|File:Flag of Easter Island until 1902.svg|[[Flag of Easter Island|Flag of Rapa Nui]], Chile (until 1902)
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