Capital

Manama

Continent

Asia

Flag adopted

1932(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Bahrain

Colors and meaning

• Red(r1) #CE1126

  The blood of the martyrs and the battles of Bahrain(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  Peace(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A white band meets a red field along a serrated edge whose five white points symbolize the five pillars of Islam.

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”.

• 
  Peru85

  the same vertical band layout; near-identical colour proportions.

• 
  Trinidad and Tobago84

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

• 
  Canada82

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

• 
  Malta82

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

• 
  Timor-Leste75

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

• 
  Denmark74

  near-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.

Further reading: Flag of Bahrain on Wikipedia