Capital

Paris

Continent

Europe

Flag adopted

1794

Designer

Not individually credited

France

Colors

• Blue[1] #0055A4

• White[1] #FFFFFF

• Red[1] #EF4135

What the law specifies[1]

Article 2 of the Constitution of 4 October 1958 states, in full: "L'emblème national est le drapeau tricolore, bleu, blanc, rouge." It names the national emblem as the blue, white and red tricolour flag, and fixes nothing further: no proportions, no shades, and no meanings for the colours.

Symbolism and history

The blue-white-red vertical tricolor, born from the cockade colors of the 1789 Revolution, was a scheme later adopted by many other nations in Europe and elsewhere.

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”.

• 
  Italy79

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

• 
  Peru78

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

• 
  Chad76

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

• 
  Romania76

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

• 
  Andorra75

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

• 
  Canada75

  the same vertical 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 France on Wikipedia