Capital

Lima

Continent

South America

Flag adopted

1825(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Peru

Colors and meaning

• Red(r1) #D91023

  Blood shed by those who fought for independence(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  Peace(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A red-white-red vertical tricolor that bears the national coat of arms on state versions of the flag, the design set under Simón Bolívar's administration in 1825.

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”.

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  Canada90

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

• 
  Bahrain85

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

• 
  Malta84

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

• 
  Trinidad and Tobago79

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

• 
  France78

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

• 
  Italy78

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

From this entry, not from the index: Shares its red-white-red vertical band sequence with Canada's flag (in different proportions) and, in horizontal form, with Austria's.

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 Peru on Wikipedia