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Republica de Guatemala, Republic of Guatemala
Flag adopted: 26 December 1997
Coat of Arms adopted: 26 December 1997
The Flag
The right colors, ratio and national arms (seal), in an "html" version of the guatemalan flag, can be seen at .
Guido Solares, 27 July 1998
As far as I know, Guatemala follows a practice common to several other nations (Germany and Austria are examples) of having two official flags for use at land: the one known as civil flag is the blue-white-blue with no further ornaments, to be used primarily by the citizens, and the one known as state flag, which adds the coat of arms to the civil flag. Usually, this flag is to be used in any official condition to represent the country, though the specifics of it's usage varies from country to country.
Jorge Candeias, 17 October 1998
From the number of messages we've been receiving saying that the blue-white-blue flag is wrong, it looks like in Guatemala the state flag is much more in use than the civil flag, or even that the civil flag is not used at all.
Jorge Candeias, 3 April 1999
I was in Guatemala on last October and when I tried to buy a flag without the Quetzal, people told me that it does not exist, that the flag always has the Coat of Arms, or at least that is the way common people know their flag
Armando Azua, 2 June 2000
An anectode we were told in primary school regarding the position of the colors in the Guatemalan and Central American flags said that the blue stripes with the white in between simbolized the land between the two seas.
Alejandro Gutierrez-Pons, 30 August 2000
In Carlo A. Ferro's book: The Argentine flag, inspirer of the central American banners, the Guatemalan colors are mentioned in the following way:
International naming for blue: ISCC-NBS 177, or VM 1.6 PB 5.9/9.4
International naming for white: ISCC-NBS 263, or VM 2.5 PB 9.5/0.2
The Pantone value for the shade of blue in the flag of Guatemala would be 297, but Luis Havas mentions 2995.
Gus Tracchia, 27 November 2000
According to Album 2000 [pay00]:
- National Flag (-CS/-CS (5:8)) - BWB vertical tricolour with CoA in the middle. The colour approximation given in Album 2000 is Pantone 299c, i.e. CMYK 90-20-0-0. RGB this would be something like 0-102-255.
- Civil Flag and Ensign (C--/C-- (5:8)) - BWB vertical triband.
Zeljko Heimer, 19 October 2001
An article (only in Spanish) about the topic: "Guatemala's color of the flag", can be read in .
Jaume Olle', 10 September 2003
Translated from this article: "According to a directive of Arzz, the color is "sky blue". Although the national flag is made and distributed in different shades of blue, officially the color established by this is that called "sky blue", according to the directive issued in 1997."
Albert S. Kirsch, 12 Febuary 2004
This is Decree No. 104 of 26 September 1997 which confirmed the colours as blue ISSWC-NBS 177 and white ISCC-NBS 263 in the (US) Inter-Society Council and National Bureau of Standards range. These same colours were also given in a Presidential Decree of 12 September 1968, so I don't quite understand how they could only have been "established" in 1997.
The question put by the article is (if I have it translated correctly): "is the flag (dark) blue or sky blue"? and the answer appears to be that it should be "sky blue".
I couldn't find anything (colour-wise that is) on the 1968 Decree. It does, however, quote the ISCC colours I gave above.
Christopher Southworth, 12 Febuary 2004
The answer in the article (of the flag of Guatemala) is that its correct color is sky blue. However, according to the same article, in a poll people answered that the "correct" color was dark blue. Some historians' conclusion is that there is some kind of lack of knowledge of the subject between people.
The color is sky blue. I think that ISCC-NBS 177 color is close (not exactly, but close) to a Pantone 297 or a Pantone 298 (Pantone 298 was recommended for the National Flag of Argentina some years ago for the Academia Nacional de la
Historia, so the Guatemalan color is very close to the Argentine one).
Francisco Gregoric, 13 Febuary 2004
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