Capital

Sana'a

Continent

Asia

Flag adopted

1990(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Yemen

Colors and meaning

• Red(r1) #CE1126

  The blood of martyrs who struggled to achieve independence and unity(r1)

• White(r1) #FFFFFF

  A bright future(r1)

• Black(r1) #000000

  The dark days of the past(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A plain red-white-black tricolor in the Pan-Arab colours, adopted on 22 May 1990, the day of the unification of North and South Yemen.

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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  Egypt97

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

• 
  Iraq97

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

• 
  Sudan82

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

• 
  Hungary79

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

• 
  Austria78

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

• 
  Netherlands78

  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 Yemen on Wikipedia