It's not 50 stars for 50 states
There is 50 stars on my flag which is the American flag's number of stars.
If I remember correctly, Ellis Island did not have it's own flag. I'm pretty sure it had the American Flag on it. So there would be 50 stars on it.
Count the stars and you know the number of states in the USA.
Every year on 4 July, the U. S. adopts a flag that has the same number of stars as the number of states in the U. S., unless, of course, the current flag already has that many stars.
There are 12 stars on the flag of the European Union. The design represents unity among the member states and does not have a specific number of stars for each country.
The stars on the American flag represent the number of states in the union. There are fifty stars today, there were 13 originally.
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The stars are representing the number of states the u.s.a has.
the number of flags in the us flag is actually 50 every star counts for a state
The number of states in Brazil.
12 The number of stars has nothing to do with the number of Member States. There are twelve stars because the number twelve is traditionally the symbol of perfection, completeness and unity. The flag therefore remains unchanged regardless of EU enlargements.