Capital

Maseru

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

2006(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Lesotho

Colors and meaning

• Blue(r1) #00209F

  The sky or rain(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  Peace(r1)

• Green(r1) #009543

  Prosperity(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A black Basotho straw hat (mokorotlo) sits centered on a white band between blue and green; the 2006 redesign replaced the previous flag's shield, assegai and knobkierrie to reflect a state at peace, internally and with its only neighbour, South Africa.

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”.

• 
  Gambia76

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

• 
  Hungary74

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

• 
  Netherlands74

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

• 
  Tajikistan74

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

• 
  India73

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

• 
  Paraguay73

  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 Lesotho on Wikipedia