Capital

Antananarivo

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1958

Designer

Not individually credited

Madagascar

Colors and meaning

• White #FFFFFF

  Purity and sovereignty

• Red #FC3D32

  Sovereignty, echoing historic Merina kingdom banners

• Green #007E3A

  Hope, and the country's coastal Hova people

Symbolism and history

A white vertical band at the hoist stands beside horizontal red-over-green bands, a layout distinct from the pan-African tricolors of mainland Africa, reflecting Madagascar's separate Austronesian and Merina kingdom heritage.

Closest-looking flags

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  Republic of the Congo

  Uses the same three pan-African-adjacent colors as many mainland flags, but the vertical-plus-horizontal split sets it apart structurally, most notably from Congo-Brazzaville's diagonal version.

Further reading: Flag of Madagascar on Wikipedia