Capital

Vientiane

Continent

Asia

Flag adopted

1975(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Laos

Colors and meaning

• Red(r1) #CE1126

  The blood shed by the Lao people on both banks of the Mekong in their struggle for freedom(r1)

• Blue(r1) #0F2A8C

  The Mekong River, a symbol of the nation's prosperity(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A white disc, standing for the unity of the Lao people under one nation and also said to represent a full moon over the Mekong, sits on a wide blue band between narrower red bands, adopted as the national flag in 1975 when the Pathet Lao took power.

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”.

• 
  Liechtenstein88

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

• 
  Cambodia85

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

• 
  Cuba81

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

• 
  Haiti81

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

• 
  Netherlands81

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

• 
  Chile80

  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 Laos on Wikipedia