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The colors on the Luxembourg flag are based on what?

a. Luxembourg’s national dish
b. Luxembourg’s relationship with the Netherlands
c. Belgian waffles
d. Luxembourg’s coat of arms

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Answer: D. Luxembourg's coat of arms

Step-by-step explanation: Following the Napoleonic Wars, Luxembourg, which had been part of the Holy Roman Empire, became a separate country under the protection of the Netherlands. Its national colors, derived from the ducal coat of arms, came to be used as a horizontal red-white-blue tricolor, adopted on June 12, 1845.

The Duchy of Limburg, located in present-day Belgium and the Netherlands, is where the origins of Luxembourg's coat of arms may be found. The arms are designated as Barry of ten Argent and Azure, a Lion rampant queue forchée Gules crowned, armed and langued Or in heraldic terminology.

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