Capital

Luxembourg City

Continent

Europe

Flag adopted

1972

Designer

Not individually credited

Luxembourg

Colors

• Light blue(r1) #00A1DE

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

• Red(r1) #ED2939

Symbolism and history(r1)

A red-white-light blue horizontal tricolor whose colours derive from the coat of arms of the House of Luxembourg; it is almost identical to the flag of the Netherlands, except that it is longer and its blue and red are a lighter shade, a distinction clarified by law.

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”.

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  Netherlands79

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

• 
  Paraguay78

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

• 
  Hungary77

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

• 
  Yemen77

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

• 
  Austria76

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

• 
  Croatia76

  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 Luxembourg on Wikipedia