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Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a federal republic located on the northern coast of South America. It is bordered by Colombia on the west, Brazil on the south, Guyana on the east, and the islands of Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east. Venezuela covers 916,445 km² and has over 31 million people. The country has extremely high biodiversity, with habitats ranging from the Andes Mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin rain-forest in the south, via extensive llanos plains and Caribbean coast in the center and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.

Venezuela Flag Colors - meaning

​ Yellow stands for the riches of the land

Blue represents the courage of Venezuela's people and Venezuela's independence from Spain

 Red symbolizes the blood shed in Venezuela's struggle for independence

Eight stars represent the eight provinces in Venezuela that united in the war of independence

Venezuela Flag history

The Venezuela flag is based on the flag designed by Francisco de Miranda for his unsuccessful attempt to liberate Venezuela and later adopted by the National Congress of 1811. This original design was first flown on March 12, 1806 at Jacmel, Haiti as Miranda's expedition prepared to make the final leg of its voyage to Venezuela. The flag was first flown over Venezuelan soil at La Vela de Coro, on August 3. Until August 3, 2006, Flag Day was celebrated in Venezuela on March 12. Since 2006 it has been celebrated on August 3. In 2006, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Venezuela's first flag, an eighth star was added to the existing seven stars in the middle of the flag to represent the historical province of Guayana, one of the Provinces of Venezuela at the time of the declaration of independence. The details of the coat of arms were also modified on that occasion and those changes include a white horse galloping left instead of right, a bow and arrow representing Venezuela’s indigenous people and a machete to represent the labor of workers.

Coat of Arms

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 Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro: ‘We don’t carry the yellow star of David ... we carry red hearts.’

And Britain's Foreign Minister Boris Johnson warned that Venezuela "stands on the brink of disaster."

​"Nicolas Maduro's government must stop before it is too late," he said.

However, old allies Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Russia stood by Maduro, who shrugged off mass protests and a previous round of US sanctions on some of his officials to see through the election.

Cuba, Venezuela's closest ally, charged that "a well-organised international operation was under way, led from Washington, with the support of the OAS chief, aimed at silencing the voice of the Venezuelan people, and forcing them into submission with attacks and economic sanctions." 

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