Capital

Port Vila

Continent

Oceania

Flag adopted

1980(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Vanuatu

Colors and meaning

• Red(r1) #D21034

  Blood, which unites humanity as humans(r1)

• Green(r1) #009543

  The richness of the islands(r1)

• Black(r1) #000000

  The Melanesian ni-Vanuatu people(r1)

• Yellow(r1) #FFD100

  The Y-shape: the shape of the islands on the map, and the light of the gospel(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A black horizontal Y shape bordered in yellow, representing the shape of the islands and the light of the gospel, crosses a green-and-red field, with a boar's tusk (customs, tradition and prosperity) encircling crossed namele fern leaves (a token of peace, their 39 leaflets the original 39 members of Parliament) at the hoist.

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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  Malawi89

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

• 
  Kenya85

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

• 
  Libya84

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

• 
  Jordan82

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

• 
  Ghana81

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

• 
  State of Palestine81

  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 Vanuatu on Wikipedia