Capital

Prague

Continent

Europe

Flag adopted

1920

Designer

Not individually credited

Czech Republic

Colors and meaning

• Red #D7141A

  Historically the color of Bohemia's coat of arms

• White #FFFFFF

  Bohemia's arms, and peace

• Blue #11457E

  Added in 1920 specifically to distinguish the new Czechoslovak flag from Poland's plain white-over-red

Symbolism and history

A blue hoist triangle points into a white-over-red bicolor, a design retained unchanged by the Czech Republic after the 1993 dissolution of Czechoslovakia despite Slovakia's claim to shared symbols.

Closest-looking flags

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  Poland

  Without its blue triangle, this would be identical to Poland's white-over-red flag; the wedge was added in 1920 specifically to avoid that confusion.

Further reading: Flag of Czech Republic on Wikipedia