Capital

Asunción

Continent

South America

Flag adopted

1990

Designer

Not individually credited

Paraguay

Colors and meaning

• Red(r1) #D52B1E

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

• Blue(r1) #0038A8

  Historically, Our Lady of the Assumption, for whom the capital is named(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A red-white-blue horizontal tricolor inspired by the French Tricolour, the only national flag with a different design on each side: the national seal on the obverse, the treasury seal on the reverse.

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”.

• 
  Netherlands98

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

• 
  Croatia95

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

• 
  Russia86

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

• 
  Cuba85

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

• 
  Czech Republic85

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

• 
  United States of America85

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

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 Paraguay on Wikipedia