Why Do All CENTRAL AMERICAN Countries Have Such Similar Flags?

Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months free here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/knowledge It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! In this video I talk about Central American Flags. Pointing out their similarities. Namely those of colours - using blue and white (Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras), and blue white and red (Costa Rica, Panama and Belize); only changing in the tones of blue. These countries declared independence from the Spanish Empire, having been part of the Captaincy General of Guatemala during colonial times. In 1821 they declared independence, many of them alone, but perhaps due to the expansion of the Mexican Empire to their North (who had also recently achieved independence), they chose to join up together in 1823 and created the Federal Republic of Central America (or the United Provinces of Central America) which joined up the modern countries of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Panama was left out due to belonging to Gran Colombia, and Belize still being a British Colony. The flag they chose for this Central American Union was inspired in that of Argentina, a horizontal three-stripped flag of light blue and white. Upon the dissolution of this Federal Republic due to its internal struggles, many of the newly independent countries kept on using the same flag on their own, later adapting them and slightly changing the tone of blue or orientation of the stripes (sometimes adding a new color) as well as adding their coat of arms to differentiate themselves from their neighbours, but choosing to maintain the similarity in most cases. Although there were a few exceptions in some cases where these countries tried using completely different flags, but then reverting to a version of the original one. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 00:56 Federal Republic of Central America 03:41 NordVPN 05:07 Guatemala 05:55 El Salvador 06:48 Honduras 07:34 Nicaragua 08:36 Costa Rica 09:24 Panama 10:38 Belize 11:51 Summary Support me on Patreon & get exclusive / ahead of time content! https://www.patreon.com/generalknowledge Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GKonYoutube