Capital

Mexico City

Continent

North America

Flag adopted

1968(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Mexico

Colors

• Green(r1) #006847

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

• Red(r1) #CE1126

Symbolism and history(r1)

A green-white-red vertical tricolor bears the national coat of arms: an eagle perched on a nopal cactus and devouring a serpent, from the Aztec legend that signalled where to found their city, Tenochtitlan, at the center of the white band.

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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  Italy90

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

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  Madagascar80

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

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  France70

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

• 
  Ireland70

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

• 
  Senegal70

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

• 
  Algeria69

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

From this entry, not from the index: Shares Italy's green-white-red vertical tricolor structure, distinguished immediately by Mexico's detailed central coat of arms.

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 Mexico on Wikipedia