China
What the source says
Referenced, awaiting primary-source reviewAdopted on 1 October 1949. The red background symbolizes the Chinese Communist Revolution. The larger star symbolized the CCP; the four smaller stars symbolized the four social classes of China's New Democracy. The flag was designed by Zeng Liansong.
Referenced, not verified: a secondary work states this, and the document that constitutes the flag has not been read for this entry. What the marks mean.
Colors and meaning
Yellow(r1) #FFDE00
Symbolism and history(r1)
A large yellow star representing the Communist Party is joined by four smaller stars for the four social classes of Mao Zedong's "New Democracy," adopted on 1 October 1949 as the People's Republic was proclaimed.
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”.
Morocco96near-identical colour proportions.
Türkiye95near-identical colour proportions.
Vietnam95near-identical colour proportions.
Kyrgyzstan93near-identical colour proportions.
Tunisia91near-identical colour proportions.
Albania89near-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.
References — not verification
(r1) Referenced to Flag of China (Wikipedia (English)) on 2026-07-17. States the adoption year, which colors the flag has, what the colors mean and the symbolism and history on this page. The passage it states them in is quoted at the top of this entry.
Further reading: Flag of China on Wikipedia
