Capital

Brussels

Continent

Europe

Flag adopted

1830(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Belgium

Colors and meaning

• Black(r1) #000000

  Historically drawn from the coat of arms of the Duchy of Brabant(r1)

• Yellow(r1) #FDDA24

  The Duchy of Brabant's arms(r1)

• Red(r1) #EF3340

  The Duchy of Brabant's arms(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A black-yellow-red vertical tricolor whose colors were taken from the coat of arms of the Duchy of Brabant, adopted during the 1830 Belgian Revolution; its vertical design may be based on the flag of France.

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”.

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  Romania79

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

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  Chad78

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

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  Mali78

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

• 
  Senegal76

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

• 
  Timor-Leste76

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

• 
  Republic of the Congo74

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

From this entry, not from the index: Shares the same three colors as Germany's flag, arranged vertically rather than horizontally and in a different order (black-yellow-red versus black-red-yellow).

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 Belgium on Wikipedia