Capital

Gaborone

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1966(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Botswana

Colors and meaning

• Light blue(r1) #75AADB

  The sky, and water, which is scarce; the national motto Pula means water and rain(r1)

• Black(r1) #000000

  With the white frame, the harmony between people of different races, and the zebra, the national animal(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  With the black band, the harmony between people of different races, and the zebra(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A black stripe fringed by thin white lines crosses a light blue field; it is one of the few African flags that use neither the colours of the Pan-Africanist movement nor those of the leading political party.

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”.

• 
  Honduras80

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

• 
  Bahamas62

  the same colours in similar amounts.

• 
  Kazakhstan59

  the same colours in similar amounts.

• 
  Azerbaijan58

  the same horizontal band layout.

• 
  Palau58

  the same colours in similar amounts.

• 
  San Marino58

  the same horizontal 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 Botswana on Wikipedia