Capital

Bridgetown

Continent

North America

Flag adopted

1966(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Barbados

Colors and meaning

• Ultramarine blue(r1) #00267F

  The ocean surrounding the country and the sky(r1)

• Gold(r1) #FFC726

  The sand of the island(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A black trident head, broken to represent the breaking of colonial rule and independence from the British Empire, centers a blue-gold-blue vertical tricolor, adopted at independence in 1966.

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”.

• 
  Bosnia and Herzegovina83

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

• 
  Andorra75

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

• 
  Chad74

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

• 
  Romania73

  the same vertical band layout; similar colours in a different arrangement.

• 
  Sweden72

  near-identical colour proportions.

• 
  Moldova64

  the same vertical band layout; similar colours in a different arrangement.

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 Barbados on Wikipedia