Capital

Pyongyang

Continent

Asia

Flag adopted

1948(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

North Korea

Colors and meaning

• Blue(r1) #024FA2

  The spirit of the Korean people fighting for world peace (per Kim Il Sung)(r1)

• Red(r1) #ED1C27

  The anti-Japanese fervour and the blood shed by Korean patriots(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  The one bloodline, land, language and culture of the country(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A red band bearing a white disc and a red five-pointed star — the star representing socialism — sits between narrow white and broad blue bands, adopted in 1948.

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”.

• 
  Kiribati86

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

• 
  Bulgaria81

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

• 
  Liberia73

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

• 
  Oman73

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

• 
  Chile72

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

• 
  Austria71

  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 North Korea on Wikipedia