Capital

Niamey

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1959(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Niger

Colors and meaning

• Orange(r1) #E05206

  The northern regions of the Sahara Desert (the Saharan zone)(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  The Sahelian zone(r1)

• Green(r1) #1EB53A

  The fertile regions of southern Niger (the Sudanian zone)(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

An orange-white-green horizontal tricolor with a centered orange disc thought to stand for the sun, adopted in 1959; the article notes that official sources have yet to confirm the symbolism.

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”.

• 
  Burundi83

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

• 
  Hungary77

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

• 
  Austria76

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

• 
  Croatia75

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

• 
  Egypt75

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

• 
  Iraq75

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

From this entry, not from the index: Its orange-white-green horizontal bands closely echo India's tricolor, though India uses a navy Ashoka Chakra wheel rather than a plain orange sun disc.

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 Niger on Wikipedia