Capital

Berlin

Continent

Europe

Flag adopted

1949

Designer

Not individually credited

Germany

Colors and meaning

• Black #000000

  Historically drawn from the black-red-gold colors of the 1848 Frankfurt Parliament and the fight for German unity and liberal democracy

• Red #DD0000

  The same 1848 liberal tradition

• Gold #FFCC00

  The same 1848 liberal tradition

Symbolism and history

A plain black-red-gold horizontal tricolor, readopted by West Germany in 1949 and by unified Germany in 1990, deliberately reviving the flag of the failed 1848 liberal revolution rather than the Prussian black-white-red used under the Empire and, briefly, the Nazi regime.

Closest-looking flags

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  Belgium

  Shares the same three colors as Belgium's flag in a different order and orientation, both tracing to distinct 19th-century liberal and revolutionary movements.

Further reading: Flag of Germany on Wikipedia