Capital

Bern

Continent

Europe

Flag adopted

1889(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Switzerland

Colors and meaning

• Red(r1) #FF0000

  The field bearing the white cross, the field sign of the Old Swiss Confederacy(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A bold white cross with arms of equal length centers a square red field; the Swiss Federal Council in 1889 called the cross both the Christian cross symbol and the field sign of the Old Confederacy. It is one of only two square national flags, the other being Vatican City's.

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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  Tunisia96

  near-identical colour proportions.

• 
  Tonga93

  near-identical colour proportions.

• 
  Türkiye93

  near-identical colour proportions.

• 
  Denmark90

  near-identical colour proportions.

• 
  Kyrgyzstan89

  near-identical colour proportions.

• 
  Albania88

  near-identical colour proportions.

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 Switzerland on Wikipedia