Capital

Santo Domingo

Continent

North America

Flag adopted

1844

Designer

Not individually credited

Dominican Republic

Colors and meaning

• Blue #002D62

  Liberty, drawn from the flag of the Dominican independence movement

• Red #CE1126

  The blood of the nation's founders

• White #FFFFFF

  Salvation and the cross of the Christian faith

Symbolism and history

A white cross divides the field into blue and red quadrants, with the national coat of arms, a Bible opened to the Gospel of John, at the center, making it one of relatively few national flags to feature an open book.

Closest-looking flags

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  Haiti

  Shares Haiti's blue-and-red palette, a legacy of the two nations' shared 19th-century political history on the island of Hispaniola, though the arrangement and central emblem differ completely.

Further reading: Flag of Dominican Republic on Wikipedia