Capital

Luanda

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1975(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Angola

Colors and meaning

• Red(r1) #CC092F

  The blood shed by Angolans during the colonial period, the war of independence and in defence of the country(r1)

• Black(r1) #000000

  Africa(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A yellow emblem combining a half-cogwheel (workers and industry), a machete (peasants, agriculture and the war of independence) and a star (international solidarity and progress) sits left of center; the vexillologist Whitney Smith noted the charge is similar to the star, hammer and sickle of the Soviet flag.

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”.

• 
  Libya79

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

• 
  Egypt76

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

• 
  Papua New Guinea76

  near-identical colour proportions.

• 
  Yemen76

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

• 
  Iraq75

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

• 
  Vanuatu74

  the same horizontal 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 Angola on Wikipedia