Capital

Buenos Aires

Continent

South America

Flag adopted

1818

Designer

Manuel Belgrano

Argentina

Colors and meaning

• Sky blue #75AADB

  The sky clearing over Buenos Aires on the day of a decisive 1810 independence protest, per national tradition

• White #FFFFFF

  Peace and the purity of the independence cause

Symbolism and history

A golden Sun of May, referencing the sun said to have broken through clouds during the 1810 May Revolution, centers a sky-blue-white-sky-blue tricolor, with the sun added to the plain tricolor in 1818.

Closest-looking flags

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  Uruguay

  Its Sun of May emblem is shared directly with Uruguay's flag, a legacy of the shared independence movement across the Rio de la Plata region.

Further reading: Flag of Argentina on Wikipedia