- Capital
- Vilnius
- Continent
- Europe
- Flag adopted
- 1988
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Lithuania
What the source says
Checked against the constituting documentValstybės vėliavos spalvos – geltona, žalia, raudona.
Checked means compared against the quoted text, not read by a person. What the marks mean.
Colors
What the law specifies[1]
Article 15 of the Constitution states, in full: "Valstybės vėliavos spalvos – geltona, žalia, raudona" — the colours of the State flag are yellow, green, red. The article fixes the three colours and nothing else; the proportions (3:5) are set by the separate flag statute, not by this constitutional article, and so are not verified here.
Symbolism and history
A plain yellow-green-red horizontal tricolor, first adopted on 25 April 1918, suppressed under Soviet rule, and restored on 18 November 1988 ahead of the re-establishment of independence.
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”.
- Ghana89
the same horizontal band layout; near-identical colour proportions.
- Ethiopia87
the same horizontal band layout; near-identical colour proportions.
- Togo85
the same horizontal band layout; near-identical colour proportions.
- Bolivia81
the same horizontal band layout; near-identical colour proportions.
- Venezuela80
the same horizontal band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.
- Burkina Faso79
the same horizontal band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.
From this entry, not from the index: Myanmar uses the identical yellow-green-red horizontal sequence, differing only by the white star Myanmar adds at center.
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.
Sources
[1] Verified against Lietuvos Respublikos Konstitucija, 15 straipsnis (Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas) on 2026-07-18. Backs which colors the flag has and the description of the design on this page. The passage it was checked against is quoted at the top of this entry.
Further reading: Flag of Lithuania on Wikipedia