Comoros
What the source says
Referenced, awaiting primary-source reviewOfficially adopted on 23 December 2001. Four horizontal stripes of yellow, white, red and blue: yellow = Mohéli, white = Mayotte, red = Anjouan, blue = Grande Comore. The four stars also symbolize the four islands. The star and crescent, as well as the colour green, symbolise their main religion, Islam.
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
Symbolism and history(r1)
Four horizontal stripes of yellow, white, red and blue (one per island) sit on a green field bearing a white crescent and four white stars, one star per island, adopted in 2001.
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”.
- Central African Republic77
the same horizontal band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.
- Kiribati72
the same horizontal band layout; similar colours in a different arrangement.
- Ethiopia70
the same horizontal band layout; similar colours in a different arrangement.
- Ghana70
the same horizontal band layout; similar colours in a different arrangement.
- Lithuania70
the same horizontal band layout; similar colours in a different arrangement.
- Mauritius70
the same horizontal band layout; similar colours in a different arrangement.
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 the Comoros (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 the Comoros on Wikipedia