Capital

Riga

Continent

Europe

Flag adopted

1918

Designer

Not individually credited

Latvia

Colors and meaning

• Carmine red #9E3039

  Said by tradition to derive from a wounded warrior's blood-soaked, white-striped burial sheet in an old Latvian legend

• White #FFFFFF

  The same legendary sheet

Symbolism and history

A dark carmine-red-white-red horizontal tricolor with an unusually narrow white band, a design documented as early as the 13th century and among the oldest flag traditions in Europe, restored at independence in 1918 and again in 1990.

Closest-looking flags

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  Austria

  Shares Austria's red-white-red band sequence, though Latvia's red is a much darker carmine shade and the white band is proportionally narrower.

Further reading: Flag of Latvia on Wikipedia