Capital

Warsaw

Continent

Europe

Flag adopted

1919(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Poland

Colors and meaning

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  Historically drawn from the White Eagle, the emblem of Polish statehood since the Middle Ages(r1)

• Red(r1) #DC143C

  The same historic Polish heraldic tradition(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A plain white-over-red bicolor of heraldic origin, its colours the tinctures of the arms of the two nations of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, officially adopted on 1 August 1919.

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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  Indonesia90

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

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  Monaco90

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

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  Singapore88

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

• 
  Chile87

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

• 
  Lebanon87

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

• 
  Austria83

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

From this entry, not from the index: The exact reverse of Indonesia's flag, and, but for a hoist-side blue triangle, identical to the Czech Republic's flag.

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 Poland on Wikipedia