Capital

Kampala

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1962(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Uganda

Colors and meaning

• Black(r1) #000000

  The people of Africa(r1)

• Yellow(r1) #FCDC04

  Sunshine(r1)

• Red(r1) #D90000

  African brotherhood, and the blood shared by all people(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

Six black-yellow-red bands repeat twice - colours based on the Uganda People's Congress flag - centered on a white disc bearing the grey crowned crane, Uganda's national bird, whose raised leg symbolises the country's forward movement.

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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  Germany91

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

• 
  Mozambique80

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

• 
  Myanmar75

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

• 
  Lithuania74

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

• 
  Vanuatu74

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

• 
  Venezuela74

  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 Uganda on Wikipedia