Capital

Valletta

Continent

Europe

Flag adopted

1964(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Malta

Colors

• Red(r1) #CF142B

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

Symbolism and history(r1)

A white-over-red bicolor, its colours most likely drawn from the flag of the Knights of Malta rather than the 19th-century myth of Roger I of Sicily, bears the George Cross in the upper hoist — the British gallantry award given to the whole island in 1942 for its endurance in the Second World War, added to the flag in 1943.

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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  Canada90

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

• 
  Peru84

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

• 
  Bahrain82

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

• 
  Madagascar77

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

• 
  France74

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

• 
  Indonesia74

  near-identical colour proportions.

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 Malta on Wikipedia