Capital

Santiago

Continent

South America

Flag adopted

1817(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Chile

Colors and meaning

• Red(r1) #D52B1E

  Blood shed by those who fought for independence(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  The snow of the Andes mountains(r1)

• Blue(r1) #0039A6

  The Pacific Ocean and the clear sky over Chile(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A white five-pointed star on a blue square sits at the hoist of a white-over-red bicolor; Chile adopted its flag in 1817, twenty-two years before the similar Texas flag of 1839, which the article says is not a copied version of the Chilean flag, contrary to popular belief.

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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  Czech Republic89

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

• 
  Slovakia89

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

• 
  Liberia88

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

• 
  Poland87

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

• 
  Russia85

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

• 
  Malaysia84

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

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 Chile on Wikipedia