- Capital
- Belmopan
- Continent
- North America
- Flag adopted
- 1981(r1)
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Belize
What the source says
Referenced, awaiting primary-source reviewAdopted on 21 September 1981, the day Belize became independent. The colours on the flag are respectively those of the country's national parties, the People's United Party (PUP) and United Democratic Party (UDP). The figures, tools, and mahogany trees represent [the logging] industry. The 50 leaves recall 1950, the year PUP came to power.
Referenced, not verified: a secondary work states this, and the document that constitutes the flag has not been read for this entry. What the marks mean.
Colors and meaning
White(r1) #FFFFFF
Symbolism and history(r1)
A coat of arms depicting two woodcutters and the tools of the logging trade, framed by a wreath of fifty leaves recalling 1950, the year the People's United Party came to power, sits inside a white disc.
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”.
- Iceland74
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Dominican Republic72
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Australia71
the same colours in similar amounts.
- New Zealand69
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Philippines69
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Finland64
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.
References — not verification
(r1) Referenced to Flag of Belize (Wikipedia (English)) on 2026-07-17. States the adoption year, which colors the flag has, what the colors mean and the symbolism and history on this page. The passage it states them in is quoted at the top of this entry.
Further reading: Flag of Belize on Wikipedia