Capital

San Salvador

Continent

North America

Flag adopted

1912(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

El Salvador

Colors and meaning

• Cobalt blue(r1) #0047AB

  The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  Peace(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A blue-white-blue tricolor bearing the national coat of arms, its design inspired by the flag of the Federal Republic of Central America, which was itself inspired by El Salvador's 1822 flag.

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”.

• 
  Sierra Leone75

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

• 
  Costa Rica70

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

• 
  Solomon Islands70

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

• 
  Israel69

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

• 
  Slovenia67

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

• 
  Lesotho60

  the same horizontal band layout.

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 El Salvador on Wikipedia