Capital

N'Djamena

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1959(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Chad

Colors and meaning

• Blue(r1) #002664

  Lake Chad and the Black African heritage(r1)

• Yellow(r1) #FECB00

  The sands of the Sahara desert(r1)

• Red(r1) #C60C30

  The blood shed for Chad's independence from France(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A plain blue-yellow-red vertical tricolor; the original green stripe was changed to blue for the design adopted in November 1959 to avoid confusion with Mali, which used the same Pan-African colours, leaving it almost identical to Romania's 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”.

• 
  Romania96

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

• 
  Andorra94

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

• 
  Moldova83

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

• 
  Belgium78

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

• 
  Senegal77

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

• 
  France76

  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 Chad on Wikipedia