Capital

Algiers

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1962(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Algeria

Colors and meaning

• Green(r1) #006233

  Islam(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  Purity and peace(r1)

• Red(r1) #D21034

Symbolism and history(r1)

A red crescent and five-pointed star, both read as symbols of Islam, sit across the green and white halves. The design was adopted by the FLN, which led the fight against France, before being formally adopted at independence in 1962.

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”.

• 
  Nigeria80

  the same vertical band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.

• 
  Italy77

  the same vertical band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.

• 
  Ireland74

  the same vertical band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.

• 
  Pakistan73

  the same vertical band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.

• 
  Madagascar72

  the same vertical band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.

• 
  Mexico69

  the same vertical band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.

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.

Further reading: Flag of Algeria on Wikipedia