Capital

Montevideo

Continent

South America

Flag adopted

1830(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Uruguay

Colors

• Blue(r1) #0038A8

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

Symbolism and history(r1)

Nine alternating blue and white stripes for the nine original departments of Uruguay sit beside a white canton bearing the golden Sun of May, which represents the May Revolution of 1810, the design set in 1830 (reduced from nineteen stripes to nine).

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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  Israel76

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

• 
  Czech Republic73

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

• 
  Serbia73

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

• 
  Russia72

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

• 
  United States of America72

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

• 
  Lesotho71

  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 Uruguay on Wikipedia