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The current national flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina was adopted on February 4, 1998 replacing a different flag that served as flag from independence.
The flag contains a wide medium blue vertical band on the fly side with a yellow isosceles triangle abutting the band and the top of the flag. The remainder of the flag is medium blue with seven full five-pointed white stars and two half stars top and bottom along the hypotenuse of the triangle.
Originally the flag was to use UN Blue but was changed to a darker blue to correspond with the EU flag.
The three points of the triangle stand for the three-nation theory of Bosnia ( Croats, Bosniaks, and Serbs). The stars, representing Europe, are meant to be infinite in number and thus they continue from top to bottom.
Independent flag has fleur-de-lys, a symbol deemed somewhat too specific to the Bosniaks, which is why it was replaced.
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