Capital

Quito

Continent

South America

Flag adopted

1860(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Ecuador

Colors and meaning

• Yellow(r1) #FCD116

  The crops and the fertile soil(r1)

• Blue(r1) #0F47AF

  The ocean and the clear skies(r1)

• Red(r1) #EE1620

  The blood spilled by the heroes who died for the Fatherland and freedom(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A yellow-blue-red tricolor with the yellow band given double width carries the national coat of arms, whose shield shows Mount Chimborazo and the Guayas river beneath a condor with outstretched wings, at its center.

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”.

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  Colombia82

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

• 
  Venezuela76

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

• 
  Bolivia69

  the same horizontal band layout; similar colours in a different arrangement.

• 
  Mauritius68

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

• 
  Myanmar68

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

• 
  Lithuania67

  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.

Further reading: Flag of Ecuador on Wikipedia