Capital

Juba

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

2011(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

South Sudan

Colors and meaning

• Black(r1) #000000

  The people of South Sudan(r1)

• Red(r1) #CE1126

  The blood shed for independence(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  Peace(r1)

• Green(r1) #078930

  The land, agricultural and natural wealth, and progress(r1)

• Blue(r1) #0F47AF

  The waters of the Nile, a source of life(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A blue triangle at the hoist bearing a gold star for unity, hope and determination sits beside black, red and green bands fimbriated in white, adopted at independence in 2011; a different version had been the flag of the SPLM.

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”.

• 
  Kenya79

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

• 
  State of Palestine76

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

• 
  Jordan74

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

• 
  Malawi74

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

• 
  Vanuatu74

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

• 
  Libya73

  the same horizontal 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 South Sudan on Wikipedia