The flag of the Netherlands Antilles was white, with a horizontal blue stripe in the center, one-third of the flag's hoist, superimposed on a vertical red stripe of the same width, also centered; six white, five-pointed stars are arranged in a hexagon pattern in the center of the blue band, their points up. It was adopted on 19 November 1959.
The six stars represented the six main islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten.
In 1986, Aruba seceded from the Netherlands Antilles resulting in the flag being modified to depict only five stars to represent the remaining five islands.[1]
On 10 October 2010, the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved into Curaçao, Sint Maarten and the three public bodies of the Caribbean Netherlands.[2]
| / Colors scheme |
Blue | Red | White |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pantone | Reflex Blue C | 2035 C | White |
| CMYK | 100-73-0-47 | 0-93-90-13 | 0-0-0-0 |
| HEX | #002588 | #DD1017 | #FFFFFF |
| RGB | 0-37-136 | 221-16-23 | 255-255-255 |
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