Capital

Yamoussoukro

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1959(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Côte d'Ivoire

Colors and meaning

• Orange(r1) #F77F00

  The rich and generous land, and the blood of a young people(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  Peace, the peace of law(r1)

• Green(r1) #009E60

  Hope, and the certainty of a better future(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A plain orange-white-green vertical tricolor; it is the reverse of Ireland's tricolour, in less oblong proportions.

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”.

• 
  Ireland74

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

• 
  Nigeria58

  the same vertical band layout.

• 
  Canada57

  the same vertical band layout.

• 
  Peru57

  the same vertical band layout.

• 
  Holy See56

  the same vertical band layout.

• 
  Italy56

  the same vertical band layout.

From this entry, not from the index: The exact reverse of Ireland's green-white-orange tricolor; only the stripe order differs.

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 Ivory Coast on Wikipedia