Capital

Yaoundé

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1975(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Cameroon

Colors and meaning

• Green(r1) #007A5E

  The forests of the south(r1)

• Red(r1) #CE1126

  Unity(r1)

• Yellow(r1) #FCE100

  The sun, and the savannas of the north(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A green-red-yellow tricolor with a single yellow five-pointed star, the "star of unity," centered on the red band; the previous two-star flag was changed to this single centered star in 1975 when Cameroon became a unitary state.

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”.

• 
  Benin74

  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.

• 
  Romania74

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

• 
  Belgium73

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

• 
  Chad73

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

• 
  Mali73

  the same vertical band layout; 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.

Further reading: Flag of Cameroon on Wikipedia