Capital

San José

Continent

North America

Flag adopted

1848(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Costa Rica

Colors and meaning

• Blue(r1) #002B7F

  The sky, and opportunities within reach(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  Clear thinking, wisdom, and the peace of Costa Rica(r1)

• Red(r1) #CE1126

  The warmth of the people and their bloodshed for freedom(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A red band, added in 1848 between the blue-white-blue bands of the old Central American Federation flag on the recommendation of Pacífica Fernández, an admirer of the France of the 1848 revolution.

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”.

• 
  Slovenia86

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

• 
  Liberia75

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

• 
  Burundi73

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

• 
  Malaysia73

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

• 
  Chile72

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

• 
  Czech Republic72

  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 Costa Rica on Wikipedia