You might have also pointed out that Brazil straddles the equator, which is represented by the white line with the motto. The single star above the motto represents the one province that is north of the equator.

I think changing from stripe to current flag was blessing from God for Brazil. Current Brazil flag is beautiful and well respected all over the world.

1:14 The yellow is not from Dom Pedro I, the yellow is from the Habsburg house of Empress Leopoldina. And the green is the green of the Bragança, house of Dom Pedro I. So it is, Habsburg yellow and Bragança green.

Not all of Brazil, but part of the Northeastern states was controlled by the dutch. The french also controll parts of Brazil, Maranhão and the city of Rio de Janeiro was controlled by the french.

The blue orb is a callback to the armillary sphere, which has been a part of the flags of Brazil since the 17th century

"Kroketten en stroopwafels" 🤣. Daar moest ik smakelijk om lachen. 😋

Braganza Green and Habsburg Yellow. Paraná was added in the sense that it seceded from São Paulo, not a new territory that was annexed, I thought that could be made a tad more clear. It's also nice to remember that Positivism as a philosophy was dominant in the Army at the time and to an extent influenced the decision to have a coup. Interestingly enough these constellations are positioned as they were on the 15th of November 1889, the day of the coup, so not only it's place-specific, it's also time specific. The only State to be properly "annexed" and not cut out from other states is Acre, which was annexed in 1909 and turned into a state in the 1946 constitution. Another interesting fact is that each Star is directly connected to a state, the bigger the state in area, the bigger the star, for example, and the single Star above the "Ordem e Progresso" logo represents Amapá, the only state whose capital is north of the Equator. Also, I find it so funny how the Dutch almost can't remember colonising Brazil whilst Brazilians idolise the Maurits van Nassau era. Anyhow, I really liked the video. I really like your content, big fan, please take these comments as constructive or like "curiosity miscellanea" Keep up the good job!

Usa of brazil

Hello Hilbert. Not only is this one of the flags that stood out as looking especially attractive, when learning flags as a kid, but the way the colours were designed into one of the best looking football kits sort of ties in with your recent branching out in that direction. I expected you would mention it, if only to show an orange kit for comparison.

Good thing they didn’t choose the stripes one. Looks awful. The current one is good imo, especially with the constellation features. The Brazilian empire fligas were incredible too.

I had no idea that Brazil also added more stars to its flags

The constellations on the flag are not random, they are in the position of Rio sky on the night of the proclamation of the republic

Very good video! I follow you since a long time and it's very nice seeing you talking about my country! But some corrections are needed: 1 - In the very beginning you talk about the two Imperial flags, you accidentally changed the order and showed the later Imperial flag (with the Imperial Crown of Brazil) as if it was the first one. 2 - A mistake in the colors, the green represented the House of Bragança and the yellow the House of Habsburg in the Imperial Flag. (Their meaning in the Republic flag is changed for the nature and the riches, with the blue orb being the night sky of Rio de Janeiro during the proclamation of the Republic, with the PoV being from the space to the Earth.) 3 - The Dutch colony in Brazil was a short lived venture, they controlled part of the now Northeast states of Brazil (at the time, they were important centers of Brazil). It was a very interesting period and the portuguese reconquest had big repercussions for the history of the US too! 4 - One of the main reasons for the change to a more similar format to the Imperial Flag is that the leader of the republican coup, the Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca, was a monarchies and a personal friend of Dom Pedro II, and it's said that he wasn't a fan of the more US like flag. Overall, I really appreciate your video and hope to see more content about Brazil and the rest of the world in the future, thanks!

Those two original flags from the 1800's were straight 🔥 for reals they looked great. The current flag doesn't necessarily look bad, but it looks like the logo to a sci-fi video game.

In Portuguese “do” (contraction of preposition “de” and masculine definite article “o” is pronounced “doo” as it is in English, not “do” as in “do-re-me.” The terminal “m” in “ordem” is nasalized and pronounced “ordeng.”

Please make more of this content!This is the best!I have always loved your content and channel!Keep up the good work!

I think Green is the Braganza family and Yellow is for the Habsburg family, not the other way around.

First imperial flag was the best.

Let me guess (without watching) - you will reference how in the 1630s while Portugal was a part of Spain temporarily the Dutch took over a part of Northern Brazil... W I L H E L M U S

Very cool video, Hilbert. Thank you. If could talk about the pre-Independence flags of Brazil, that would be great, they are pretty interesting as well.

Another correction. 1:09 - This design remainded for a couple of weeks when independent Brazil was a kingdom. To avoid links to the former metropoly, the crown on the flag was changed and Brazil became an empire.

2:54 nobody tell Chad and Romania (or Indonesia and Monaco, Luxembourg and the Netherlands)

No, Dom Pedro First of Brazil, and Pedro Fourth of Portugal... the yellow one is from the Habsburgos, that is to say from the empress leopoldina, the green one is from the Braganças, that is to say from Dom Pedro l . And the first crown on the flag is the royal one, not the imperial one, as independence was proclaimed after Pedro I, in the name of his father King Dom João, later we adopted the imperial crown because Dom João said that Pedro would take the throne of Brazil for you, thus came the flag with the imperial crown..

My dad has a New Holland Tractor.

4:36 Small mistake here, you say 'another flag is added', when I think you meant 'another state (or star) is added'.

Imagine if all the American countries’ flags were just different variations of the US flag. That would be kinda funny.

❤Thanks for the great video! Keep it awesome!

I'm brazilian and here we say "bola azul" or "blue ball" for the center thing stuff with the stars.

They were right! The current flag is much much better! Apparently our family's ancestor arrived in North America from Recife. On a Dutch West India Company ship. More fun with history.

Oh god I'm glad they changed to what they use now, that old flag looks hideous.

Alaska has the Big Dipper on its flag

A small correction: it's Dom Pedro I of Brasil and IV of Portugal

Other flags with constelation: New zeeland and Australia

I especially liked your Dutch moto on the flag. Awesome.

Funny that we used this flag only for 4 days.

Did you know that Australia actually _was_ called New Holland on early maps before the British showed up and took over? New Holland is also the name of a favela (Nova Holanda) in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro in the Maré Complex.

Los holandeses también estuvieron por acá en 1643. Valdivia, Chile.

1:27 Quite the opposite. Yellow represents, HABSBURG, Leopoldina and Green is the COLOR OF THE BRAGANZA FAMILY, PEDRO.

6:40 F1 fans got PTSD

Make one about Argentina's flag, it has a lot of mistery around it!

The oldest Brazilian flag shown, with its horizontal stripes, resembles that of the United States, which was itself a copy of the flag of the Honourable East India Company, which like them was a quasi-autonomous group of Europeans living abroad on the backs of the natives of the country in which they resided.

Thumbs up from Brazil!😊

I am learning interesting things from videos like these recently. 😃📚

Can we stop bringing that damn flag up? We dun goof'd back in the day, OK. Just forget all about it and come to Brasil, guys. Also props for telling the real meaning of the colors on our flag which the Republican coup of 1889 tried to erase.

6:25 not really true. A small part in the north of Brazil was controlled by the Dutch. Not the entirety of Brazil.

the giant of the southern hemisphere! 👏🏼

6:30 Small correction since the way this was told could be misleading: It wasn't the entire territory of Brazil but some provinces in the Northeast of the country. This happened during the Iberian Union (1580-1640), when Brazil was controlled by the Spanish monarch, not fond of the Dutch (see Eighty Years War/Dutch Revolt), while Portugal and its colony used to be a comercial partner (sugar industry). The current administration going back on the agreements stablished between the colony of Brazil and Netherlands is what caused the invasion and brief colonization of a (small) part of the country during the Dutch-Portuguese War. Due to Brazil's large territory not being really connected during early colonization centuries, it didn't really pose as a huge threat to the capital at the time, Rio de Janeiro. And one might say that. the "parallel" colony up North was getting even more advanced in terms of urbanization than the capital (the Crown's Priority, which kinda lead to the rest of the provinces being almost forgotten).

I am enjoying your flag series. I like the way you sneak the Dutch anthem in many of your videos

I m Brazilian, Great Video Man!!!

YOU FORGOT THERES REPUBLIC OF VERMOUNT FLAG WHAT HAPPEND IF THE STATE FLAG NEVER CHANGE SO THAT MEAN TEXAS END UP A ONE STAR FLAG

Pedro IV of Portugal, not the I 1:25

I'd like to add that the dutch governed just part of Brazil, in the northeast region

OLD Brazilian Flag? it was used for less than 5 years, and that's the Old Brazilian Flag? What?

Finally first :) always interesting videos!

i was just chillin watching a chill video. next thing u know a song is being blasted. its not even a race week. can i not be free of it hahahahahaha

Trivia note: The reality game show The Amazing Race has been on for 34 Seasons & they have traveled to Brazil for 7 of them; 2, 9, 13, 18, 27, 29, & 32.

Speaking for all Americans, you’re more than welcome to insult the design of our flag. It’s way too busy. In my youth, I went to Greece on a trip and while my mind was naturally blown by lots of things in Athens, one small, but still mind blowing thing was just that other countries have flags that are aesthetically pleasing and look nice in a design sense. Flags are meant to be noticed so I’m not saying the US flag is bad. Just that if one stripe or a few stars is good, it doesn’t follow that 13 stripes or even 50 stars is necessarily better.

Fun fact: this flag inspired by the US flag was irrelevant and insignificant, it only lasted four days as the national flag and was soon replaced.

"Brazil was controlled by the Duch".... What you mean? All of Brazil? It's a fking big country for you to come and say that whole Brasil was controlled by the dutch, sir

United States of Brazil (USB??)

Nice

As a Brazilian living in Nederland I might say that I need a t-shirt with the Kroketten en Stroopwafels flag!

Not original vs cool circle and diamond

Wait! Brazils flag used to look like the US flag?

Just what Brazil needed a dictator

Hahaha... Je kon t weer niet laten he? :D Altijd fijn om opeens t Wilhelmus te horen :D

I like the us flag but I see why people would not want to imitate it to represent their country, ESPECIALLY not in south america

KROKETTEN EN STOOPWAFELS

The only flag with a joke on it........

I'm glad the Brazilians didn't stay with that green version of the US flag. It was too derivative. I love their current flag. It was a good design choice. Bem feito, Brasil!

I love Brazil beautiful country

6:00 WTF???

_kroketten en stroopwalves_ ? more like _coxinha en caipirinha_ or whatever name the dutch would've given to the the most famous finger food in brazil: the Coxinha!

Holy shit fred scared me

Fred ahaha that hurts after the Liverpool game ahaha. 7-0…

I like the Brazilian flag. Thank you

Do one about Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹

MAKE A VIDEO ON WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OLD PARAGUAY & URUGUAY FLAG

Lovely

why this salsaish background music? it has nothing to do with brazil.

Hello bro, will you make a video on the Russian Volunteer Corps?

Whelp time to make an alternative focus tree for Brasil going back to the dutch ways ...

I want stroopwaffles!

Hello

Concordo plenamente

Talk further about Dutch Brazil.

so... USB?

Hi

I had no idea that Brazil once had a flag similar to America's

AVE IMPÈRIO!

positivism was so gay it cannot be described in words

Fred😂

The constelation of the flag is as the sky was in the moment of republic declaration.

The slogan should be for the Dutch Brazil flag. "As final touch God created the Dutch"

based tophat flag, nuff said

SOUTH AFRICA FLAG EXPLAINED

Idk if it is you or youtube but 4 double add breaks on a 8 minute video is excessive af. Ruins the watching experience.

MAKE A SAME TYPE OF EPISDOE ON ARGENTINA, BOLIVIA, CHILE, PARAGUAY, URUGUAY, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, VENEZUELA

The flag yous to be like the USA flag

Goud man😂