Capital

Amman

Continent

Asia

Flag adopted

1928(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Jordan

Colors and meaning

• Black(r1) #000000

  The Abbasid Caliphate(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  The Umayyad Caliphate(r1)

• Green(r1) #009639

  The Fatimid Caliphate(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A black-white-green tricolor bears a red hoist chevron, for the Hashemite dynasty and the Arab Revolt, with a white seven-pointed star whose points refer to the seven verses of Al-Fatiha, based on the flag of the 1916 Arab Revolt.

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”.

• 
  State of Palestine90

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

• 
  Kenya88

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

• 
  Malawi88

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

• 
  Sudan86

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

• 
  Vanuatu82

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

• 
  Libya79

  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 Jordan on Wikipedia