Capital

Washington, D.C.

Continent

North America

Flag adopted

1960

Designer

Not individually credited

United States of America

Colors and meaning

• Red #B31942

  Valor and hardiness, per widely cited (if informally adopted) tradition

• White #FFFFFF

  Purity and innocence

• Blue #0A3161

  Vigilance, perseverance and justice

Symbolism and history

Thirteen alternating red-and-white stripes represent the original thirteen colonies, while fifty white stars on a blue canton represent the fifty current states, the star count last updated in 1960 to add Hawaii.

Closest-looking flags

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  Liberia

  Its striped field and star-bearing canton were adopted, in modified form, by Liberia's flag and, quite differently, echoed in Malaysia's design.

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  Malaysia

  Its striped field and star-bearing canton were adopted, in modified form, by Liberia's flag and, quite differently, echoed in Malaysia's design.

Further reading: Flag of United States of America on Wikipedia