Brazil’s state flags
Twenty-six states and a federal district, several flying the flags of 19th-century revolts against the empire in Rio.
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Brazil’s state flags were banned outright under Getúlio Vargas’s Estado Novo, and burned in a public ceremony in 1937. They came back after 1946, and many turned to the banners of old regional revolts for their designs.
The south and southeast
São Paulo
Thirteen black and white stripes and a red canton with a map of Brazil, flown in the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution.
Rio de Janeiro
Blue and white quarters, with the state arms.
Minas Gerais
A red triangle and “Libertas quae sera tamen”, the motto of the Inconfidência Mineira, a 1789 plot for independence.
Espírito Santo
Paraná
A white band on green, with a blue globe holding the Southern Cross.
Santa Catarina
Rio Grande do Sul
Green, red and yellow diagonals, the flag of the Riograndense Republic of the Ragamuffin War (1835–1845).
The centre-west
Federal District
A green square with four gold arrowheads on white, for Brasília’s planned heart.
Goiás
Mato Grosso
A variation on the national flag, with a gold star on the blue.
Mato Grosso do Sul
The northeast
Bahia
Red and white stripes with a white triangle on blue, a design tied to the 1798 Tailors’ Revolt.
Pernambuco
A rainbow, star, sun and cross over blue and white, from the republican revolution of 1817.
Paraíba
Red and black with the word “NEGO”, “I refuse”, recalling governor João Pessoa in 1930.
Maranhão
Red, white and black stripes with a star in a blue canton.
Ceará
Piauí
Rio Grande do Norte
Alagoas
Sergipe
The north
Acre
Yellow and green with a red star, from the short-lived Republic of Acre in the early 1900s.
Amazonas
Pará
Amapá
Roraima
Rondônia
Tocantins
A sun on blue and white: Tocantins was split from Goiás in 1988, making it the newest state.
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