Capital

Cairo

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1984(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Egypt

Colors and meaning

• Red(r1) #CE1126

  The Egyptians' blood in the war against colonization(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  The purity of the Egyptians' hearts(r1)

• Black(r1) #000000

  The manner in which darkness is overcome(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A red-white-black tricolor bears the golden Eagle of Saladin at center, which the article traces to a much older origin in the Egyptian vulture.

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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  Iraq98

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

• 
  Yemen97

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

• 
  Sudan82

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

• 
  State of Palestine78

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

• 
  Austria77

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

• 
  Hungary77

  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 Egypt on Wikipedia