Albania
What the source says
Referenced, awaiting primary-source reviewAdopted 7 April 1992, [with] the star removed. A red field with a black two-headed eagle in the center. The red stands for bravery, strength, valour and bloodshed. Skanderbeg adopted the similar Eastern Roman imperial flag, with the double-headed eagle and the red background.
Referenced, not verified: a secondary work states this, and the document that constitutes the flag has not been read for this entry. What the marks mean.
Colors and meaning
Symbolism and history(r1)
A black double-headed eagle, taken by national hero Skanderbeg from the Eastern Roman imperial flag, spreads across a plain red field, restored to its non-communist form in 1992 when the star above the eagle was dropped.
Most similar flags
The 6 closest of the 194 other national flags, ranked by a similarity index computed from the flag images themselves. The number is that index, 0–100 — not a claim that the two flags are “X% identical”.
Kyrgyzstan90near-identical colour proportions.
China89near-identical colour proportions.
Morocco89near-identical colour proportions.
Tunisia89near-identical colour proportions.
Türkiye89near-identical colour proportions.
Switzerland88near-identical colour proportions.
Computed at build time: each flag is rasterised to 64x48, and the score is 0.55 × colour overlap + 0.45 × structure. A different weighting would rank these differently. How the index works.
References — not verification
(r1) Referenced to Flag of Albania (Wikipedia (English)) on 2026-07-17. States the adoption year, which colors the flag has, what the colors mean and the symbolism and history on this page. The passage it states them in is quoted at the top of this entry.
Further reading: Flag of Albania on Wikipedia
