- Capital
- Panama City
- Continent
- North America
- Flag adopted
- 1903(r1)
- Designer
- Not individually credited
Panama
What the source says
Referenced, awaiting primary-source reviewThe current design began use before the oath of December 20, 1903; officially adopted by ley 48 de 1925. Blue represents the Conservative Party [and] the purity and honesty of the life of the country; red represents the Liberal Party [and] the authority and law; white [is] peace and purity. The blue star [is] purity and honesty, the red star authority and law, and together the stars stand for the new republic. María de la Ossa de Amador, the first First Lady, made the original flag on November 1, 1903.
Referenced, not verified: a secondary work states this, and the document that constitutes the flag has not been read for this entry. What the marks mean.
Colors and meaning
Symbolism and history(r1)
Four quarters of red, blue and white, with a blue star (purity and honesty) and a red star (authority and law) that together stand for the new republic, made in 1903 by María de la Ossa de Amador, the first First Lady, combining the colours of the two rival political parties.
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”.
- Georgia77
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Japan75
the same colours in similar amounts.
- United Kingdom72
the same colours in similar amounts.
- Dominican Republic69
similar colours in a different arrangement.
- Costa Rica68
near-identical colour proportions.
- South Korea67
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.
References — not verification
(r1) Referenced to Flag of Panama (Wikipedia (English)) on 2026-07-17. States the adoption year, which colors the flag has, what the colors mean and the symbolism and history on this page. The passage it states them in is quoted at the top of this entry.
Further reading: Flag of Panama on Wikipedia