Capital

Port of Spain

Continent

South America

Flag adopted

1962(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Trinidad and Tobago

Colors and meaning

• Red(r1) #DA1A35

  Fire - the sun - representing courage(r1)

• Black(r1) #000000

  Earth, representing dedication(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  Water, representing purity and equality(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A black diagonal band fimbriated in white crosses a red field, adopted at independence from Britain in 1962; its colours stand for fire (red), earth (black) and water (white).

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”.

• 
  Timor-Leste88

  the same vertical band layout; near-identical colour proportions.

• 
  Bahrain84

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

• 
  Peru79

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

• 
  Canada73

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

• 
  Portugal72

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

• 
  Mongolia71

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

From this entry, not from the index: Its black diagonal band on a solid field echoes the structure, though not the colors, of Tanzania's diagonal design.

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 Trinidad and Tobago on Wikipedia