Capital

Georgetown

Continent

South America

Flag adopted

1966

Designer

Not individually credited

Guyana

Colors and meaning

• Green #009E49

  The forests and agriculture covering most of the country

• Gold #FCD116

  Mineral wealth

• White #FFFFFF

  The country's many rivers

• Black #000000

  Endurance

• Red #CE1126

  The zeal and dynamism of nation-building

Symbolism and history

A red triangle bordered in black is overlaid on a longer gold triangle bordered in white, both set against a green field, a five-color "Golden Arrowhead" design adopted at independence from Britain in 1966.

No documented visual overlap

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

• Venezuela
• Argentina
• Bolivia

Further reading: Flag of Guyana on Wikipedia