Syria
What the source says
Referenced, awaiting primary-source reviewThe current official flag [...] was first adopted on 8 December 2024 by the Syrian caretaker government following the fall of Assad, then formally confirmed on 13 March 2025. [It has] three horizontal stripes: green (top), white (middle), and black (bottom), with three red five-pointed stars centered on the white stripe. [The article does not explicitly state the current official meaning of the colors or stars.]
Referenced, not verified: a secondary work states this, and the document that constitutes the flag has not been read for this entry. What the marks mean.
Colors
Symbolism and history(r1)
A green-white-black horizontal tricolor bears three red five-pointed stars on the white stripe, adopted on 8 December 2024 by the caretaker government after the fall of Assad and confirmed as the national flag by the 2025 Constitutional Declaration.
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”.
- State of Palestine82
the same horizontal band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.
- Sudan80
the same horizontal band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.
- Iraq77
the same horizontal band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.
- Egypt76
the same horizontal band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.
- Kenya76
the same horizontal band layout; the same colours in similar amounts.
- Yemen75
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.
References — not verification
(r1) Referenced to Flag of Syria (Wikipedia (English)) on 2026-07-17. States the adoption year, which colors the flag has and the symbolism and history on this page. The passage it states them in is quoted at the top of this entry.
Further reading: Flag of Syria on Wikipedia