Capital

Bangui

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1958(r1)

Designer

Barthélemy Boganda

Central African Republic

Colors and meaning

• Blue(r1) #003082

  The sky and freedom(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  Peace and dignity(r1)

• Green(r1) #289728

  Hope and faith(r1)

• Yellow(r1) #FFCE00

  Tolerance(r1)

• Red(r1) #D21034

  The blood of humanity(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

Four horizontal bands of blue, white, green and yellow are crossed by a single vertical red stripe, with a yellow star in the canton. The designer, Barthélemy Boganda, combined the colours of France (blue and white) with those of Africa (green and yellow), the red stripe connecting them in unity.

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”.

• 
  Comoros77

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

• 
  Mauritius72

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

• 
  Mozambique72

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

• 
  Togo72

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

• 
  Ethiopia70

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

• 
  Ghana70

  the same horizontal 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 the Central African Republic on Wikipedia