Capital

Tunis

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1959

Designer

Not individually credited

Tunisia

Colors and meaning

• Red #E70013

  Blood shed by Ottoman-era martyrs, a color inherited from the Ottoman flag tradition

• White #FFFFFF

  Peace

Symbolism and history

A white disc bearing a red crescent and five-pointed star sits on a red field, a design dating to 1831 under the Ottoman-era Beys of Tunis and one of the oldest continuously used flag designs in Africa.

Closest-looking flags

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  Türkiye

  Shares its red-field, white-disc crescent-and-star layout with Turkey, both tracing to the same Ottoman-era vexillological tradition.

Further reading: Flag of Tunisia on Wikipedia