Capital

Malabo

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1968(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Equatorial Guinea

Colors and meaning

• Green(r1) #3E9A00

  The natural resources, agriculture and jungles of the country(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  Peace(r1)

• Red(r1) #E32118

  The blood shed by the fighters for independence(r1)

• Blue(r1) #0073CE

  The sea, which connects the mainland with the islands(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A green-white-red horizontal tricolor with a blue hoist triangle and, centered on the white band, the national coat of arms bearing a silk-cotton (Ceiba) tree, under which a treaty was signed between Spain and a local ruler.

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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  Iran87

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

• 
  Hungary85

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

• 
  Tajikistan84

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

• 
  Suriname79

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

• 
  Ethiopia77

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

• 
  Oman77

  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 Equatorial Guinea on Wikipedia