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Country Flags that Depict the Equator

Name the countries that have national flags that show or represent the equator with a stripe or band on them.
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Last updated: December 31, 2021
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First submittedDecember 31, 2021
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Explanation
Country
Flag
"...depicted the starry sky of twenty-seven small white five-pointed stars spanned by the white equatorial curved band..."
Brazil
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"The yellow alludes to the Equator – which cuts across the country – and also symbolizes the sun."
Gabon
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"The rising sun is the tropical sun as Kiribati lies astride the Equator"
Kiribati
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"The rising diagonal band represents the equator, the star above representing this Northern Hemisphere archipelago."
Marshall Islands
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"The narrow gold stripe with a width of 1⁄12 of the length of the flag represents the Equator. The stripe along with the star signifies the location of the island in the Pacific Ocean one degree south of the Equator."
Nauru
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3 Comments
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Level 85
Dec 31, 2021
Flag emojis don't work on Windows computers.
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Level 85
Dec 31, 2021
Oh, thanks for telling me that. Comes up blank or question mark or something? That's too bad.
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Level 85
Dec 31, 2021
It just shows the letters. People point it out in other quizzes and everyone says what browser they're using, but browser is a red herring. Emojis are part of Unicode, and Unicode rendering is the OS. Microsoft hasn't enabled emoji flags for some reason, despite people complaining for years.