Capital

Ottawa

Continent

North America

Flag adopted

1965(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Canada

Colors and meaning

• Red(r1) #FF0000

  From Saint George's Cross; red and white were made Canada's official colours in 1921(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  From the French royal emblem; one of Canada's two official colours since 1921(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A single red 11-pointed maple leaf, whose number of points has no special significance, centers a white square flanked by red bands, adopted in 1965 after the 1964 Great Flag Debate that replaced the Canadian Red Ensign and the Union Flag.

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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  Malta90

  the same vertical band layout; near-identical colour proportions.

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  Peru90

  the same vertical band layout; near-identical colour proportions.

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  Bahrain82

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

• 
  Italy76

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

• 
  France75

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

• 
  Madagascar73

  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 Canada on Wikipedia