Capital

Brazzaville

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1959(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Republic of the Congo

Colors and meaning

• Green(r1) #009543

  The agriculture and forests of the Congo(r1)

• Yellow(r1) #FCD116

  The friendship and nobility of the Congolese people(r1)

• Red(r1) #DC241F

Symbolism and history(r1)

A yellow diagonal band runs from the lower hoist to the upper fly, splitting green and red triangles; the original 1959 flag, replaced during the People's Republic period, was reinstated on 10 June 1991.

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”.

• 
  Mali76

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

• 
  Benin75

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

• 
  Belgium74

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

• 
  Cameroon74

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

• 
  Romania74

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

• 
  Chad73

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

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 the Republic of the Congo on Wikipedia