Capital

Bamako

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1961(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Mali

Colors and meaning

• Green(r1) #14B53A

  The fertility of the land(r1)

• Yellow(r1) #FCD116

  Purity and mineral wealth(r1)

• Red(r1) #CE1126

  The blood shed for independence from the invader(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A plain vertical green-yellow-red tricolor; the original 1959 flag bore a black kanaga, a stylized human figure with arms raised to the sky, which was removed in 1961 amid opposition to depicting the human form in a majority-Muslim country.

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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  Senegal96

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

• 
  Benin92

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

• 
  Guinea91

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

• 
  Belgium78

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

• 
  Portugal78

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

• 
  Romania78

  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 Mali on Wikipedia