Capital

Kathmandu

Continent

Asia

Flag adopted

1962(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Nepal

Colors and meaning

• Crimson(r1) #DC143C

  The national flower, the rhododendron, and the bravery of the Nepali people(r1)

• Blue(r1) #003893

  Peace(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

The only non-rectangular national flag in the world, a double-pennon of two stacked crimson pennants (a moon-bearing pennant over a sun-bearing pennant), combining the two individual pennons once used by rival branches of the ruling dynasty, given precise geometric proportions in 1962.

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”.

• 
  Canada68

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

• 
  Malta66

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

• 
  Algeria63

  the same vertical band layout; similar colours in a different arrangement.

• 
  Japan63

  near-identical colour proportions.

• 
  Mexico62

  the same vertical band layout; similar colours in a different arrangement.

• 
  France61

  the same vertical band layout; similar colours in a different arrangement.

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 Nepal on Wikipedia