North Carolina State Flag: No Star, Just the Seal

The North Carolina state flag does not have a star.

Design (adopted 1885, modified 1991):
- Blue union with white star (wait—there IS a star in the union!)

Correction: The flag features a blue vertical bar at the hoist containing a white star separating "N" and "C", above the date "May 20, 1775" (Mecklenburg Declaration) and below "April 12, 1776" (Halifax Resolves). The fly is two horizontal bars: red over white. The state seal appears on the reverse (or sometimes centered on the fly in older versions).

So: There IS a star—in the blue canton, between N and C. It represents statehood.