Capital

Antananarivo

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1958(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Madagascar

Colors and meaning

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  Purity(r1)

• Red(r1) #FC3D32

  Sovereignty and national unity(r1)

• Green(r1) #007E3A

  Hope(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A white vertical band at the hoist stands beside horizontal red-over-green bands; the colours originally had no meaning, and were assigned significance only on adoption in 1958.

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”.

• 
  Italy88

  the same vertical band layout; near-identical colour proportions.

• 
  Mexico80

  the same vertical band layout; near-identical colour proportions.

• 
  Malta77

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

• 
  Hungary74

  near-identical colour proportions.

• 
  Canada73

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

• 
  Algeria72

  the same vertical 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 Madagascar on Wikipedia