Capital

Tripoli

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

2011(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Libya

Colors and meaning

• Red(r1) #E70013

  The blood sacrificed for the freedom of Libya(r1)

• Black(r1) #000000

  To remember the dark days Libyans lived under the Italian occupation(r1)

• Green(r1) #239E46

  The country's primary wealth, agriculture, and future prosperity(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A black band bearing a white crescent and star sits between red and green bands, readopted in 2011 by the National Transitional Council after the fall of Gaddafi as a return to the 1951 flag of the Kingdom of Libya.

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”.

• 
  Kenya84

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

• 
  Vanuatu84

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

• 
  Malawi81

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

• 
  Sudan81

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

• 
  State of Palestine80

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

• 
  Angola79

  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 Libya on Wikipedia