Capital

Athens

Continent

Europe

Flag adopted

1822

Designer

Not individually credited

Greece

Colors and meaning

• Blue #0D5EAF

  The sea and sky surrounding Greece

• White #FFFFFF

  The purity of the struggle for independence

Symbolism and history

Nine alternating blue and white stripes, one for each syllable of the Greek independence motto "Eleftheria i Thanatos" (Freedom or Death), sit beside a white cross representing Orthodox Christianity, adopted during the 1822 war of independence from the Ottoman Empire.

No documented visual overlap

Greece’s design isn’t a close visual match for any other current national flag. A few more flags from Europe, for browsing:

• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta

Further reading: Flag of Greece on Wikipedia