Capital

Lusaka

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1964(r1)

Designer

Not individually credited

Zambia

Colors and meaning

• Green(r1) #198A00

  The nation's agriculture and lush flora(r1)

• Orange(r1) #EF7D00

  The land's copper and mineral wealth(r1)

• Black(r1) #000000

  The Zambian people and all black Africans(r1)

• Red(r1) #DE2010

  The nation's struggle for freedom(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

An orange fish eagle in flight - representing freedom and the people's ability to rise above the nation's issues - sits above a black-orange-red vertical block at the fly edge of a green field, adopted at independence in 1964.

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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  Turkmenistan79

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

• 
  Pakistan78

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

• 
  Nigeria72

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

• 
  Benin66

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

• 
  Bangladesh65

  the same colours in similar amounts.

• 
  Algeria64

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

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 Zambia on Wikipedia