- Capital
- Santo Domingo
- Continent
- North America
- Flag adopted
- 1844(r1)
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Dominican Republic
What the source says
Referenced, awaiting primary-source reviewFirst hoisted on February 28, 1844. The blue on the flag stands for liberty, the red for the blood of heroes, and the white for salvation. [The coat of arms shows] a bible opened to John 8:31-32 above a cross and the motto Dios, Patria, Libertad (God, Fatherland, Liberty).
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)
A white Saint George's cross divides the field into blue and red quarters; at the center the national coat of arms shows a Bible opened to John 8:31-32 above the motto Dios, Patria, Libertad (God, Fatherland, Liberty).
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”.
- Philippines88
near-identical colour proportions.
- United Kingdom87
near-identical colour proportions.
- Norway80
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Seychelles77
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Netherlands75
near-identical colour proportions.
- Paraguay75
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.
References — not verification
(r1) Referenced to Flag of the Dominican Republic (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 Dominican Republic on Wikipedia