Capital

Doha

Continent

Asia

Flag adopted

1949(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Qatar

Colors and meaning

• Maroon(r1) #8D1B3D

  The nation's heritage in purple-dye production, dating back to the Kassite and Sasanian periods(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  Peace(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A serrated line of nine white points — marking Qatar as the ninth "reconciled emirate" to sign the 1916 treaty with Britain — divides a broad maroon field from a white hoist band; it is the only national flag whose width is more than twice its height.

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”.

• 
  Latvia69

  near-identical colour proportions.

• 
  Sri Lanka62

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

• 
  Malta60

  the same vertical band layout.

• 
  Madagascar59

  the same vertical band layout.

• 
  Thailand56

  the same colours in similar amounts.

• 
  Bahrain55

  the same vertical band layout.

From this entry, not from the index: Shares the serrated-edge design of Bahrain's flag, though Qatar's field is maroon rather than red and far more elongated.

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 Qatar on Wikipedia