Capital

Maputo

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1983(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Mozambique

Colors and meaning

• Green(r1) #007168

  The country's soil(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  Peace and the justice of the struggle(r1)

• Yellow(r1) #FFD100

  The country's subsoil(r1)

• Red(r1) #D21034

  Anti-colonial resistance and national defence(r1)

• Black(r1) #000000

  The African continent(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A black stripe fringed in white and yellow crosses green-over-red bands, with a yellow star of international solidarity bearing an open book (education), a hoe (production) and an AK-47 rifle (defence); it is the only national flag that features a modern firearm.

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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  Togo82

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

• 
  Uganda80

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

• 
  Ethiopia79

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

• 
  Lithuania78

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

• 
  Vanuatu78

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

• 
  Ghana77

  the same horizontal 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 Mozambique on Wikipedia