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This is a gallery of pairs (or larger groupings) of flags that exhibit such similarity in design that they can be difficult to distinguish. They are organized by the number of main colors (disregarding, for example, colors in emblems) in the simplest design of the group. (For flags with a single main color, see Gallery of solid flags.)
In some cases, the similarity between various flags is caused by their having a single origin, with various countries or regions laying claim to a single political or cultural heritage which is expressed in a flag of a particular shape or colors. Such are, for example, the many similar Arab flags with the colous red, green, white, and black in various combinations, all going back to the flag of the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule; and the various tricolours derived from the flag of France. The similarity between the flags of Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador derives from their having all been parts of the short-lived Gran Colombia and adopting variations of its flag.
In other cases, however, completely unconnected political developments in different parts of the world have led to the adoption of astonishingly similar flags — though the colors might have completely different significance for the countries involved.
[edit] Two-color flags
[edit] Black and red
[edit] Diagonal bicolor
[edit] Horizontal bicolor
[edit] Tribands
[edit] Black and white
[edit] Crosses
[edit] Bicolors
[edit] Stripes
[edit] Others
[edit] Black and yellow
[edit] Horizontal bicolor
[edit] Blue and red
[edit] Horizontal bicolors
[edit] Blue and yellow
[edit] Horizontal bicolors
[edit] Horizontal tribands
[edit] One Star
[edit] Vertical tribands
[edit] Others
[edit] Blue and white
[edit] Stripes
[edit] Horizontal bicolors
[edit] Horizontal tribands
[edit] Saltires
[edit] Diamonds
[edit] Green and red
[edit] Horizontal bicolors
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[edit] Cross over saltire
[edit] Green and white
[edit] Horizontal bicolors
- See also: Flags of Estonian Counties
[edit] Horizontal Tribands
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[edit] Green and yellow
[edit] Diagonal bicolors
[edit] Horizontal bicolors
[edit] Diamond
[edit] Red (or maroon) and white
[edit] Horizontal bicolors
[edit] Vertical bicolors
[edit] Horizontal triband
[edit] Vertical triband
[edit] Diagonal tribands
[edit] Cantons
[edit] Stripes (more than three)
[edit] Crosses
[edit] Saltires
[edit] Red and yellow
- See also: Senyera (four red bars on yellow, associated with Aragon and the Catalan Countries)
[edit] Horizontal bicolors
[edit] Horizontal tribands
[edit] Vertical bicolors
[edit] Diagonal bicolors
[edit] Others
[edit] Three-color flags
[edit] Black, blue, and white
[edit] Black, green, and red
[edit] Horizontal tricolors
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Flag of Libya (1951-1969)
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[edit] Vertical tricolors
[edit] Black, green, and white
[edit] Horizontal Tricolours
[edit] Black, red, and white
[edit] Horizontal tricolors
- See also: Pan-Arab colours
[edit] Vertical tricolors
[edit] Diagonal tricolors
[edit] Black, red, and yellow
[edit] Horizontal tricolors
[edit] Vertical tricolors
[edit] Blue, green, and red
[edit] Blue, green, and white
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Flag of Kabardino-Balkariya Republic, Russia
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[edit] Blue, orange, and white
[edit] Blue, red, and yellow or orange
[edit] Horizontal tricolors
See Flag of Great Colombia.
[edit] Vertical tricolors
[edit] Blue, red, and white
- See also: Pan-Slavic colours
[edit] Horizontal tricolors
[edit] Vertical tricolors
[edit] Horizontal and vertical bars
[edit] Horizontal stripes
[edit] Blue canton
[edit] Triangle at hoist
[edit] Triangle and two bars
[edit] Quartering
See also: Gallery of flags based on British ensigns
[edit] Blue, yellow (or orange) and green
[edit] Horizontal tricolors
[edit] Vertical tricolors
[edit] Others
[edit] Green, orange, and white
[edit] Horizontal tricolors
[edit] Vertical tricolors
[edit] Green, red, and yellow
- See also: Pan-African colours
[edit] Horizontal tricolors
[edit] Vertical tricolors
[edit] Others
[edit] Green, white and red
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[edit] Vertical
[edit] Four-color flags
[edit] Black, green, red, and white
- See also: Pan-Arab colours
[edit] Blue, red, white, and yellow
[edit] More than four colors
[edit] Rainbow flags
- Further information: Rainbow flag
[edit] Wiphalas
Some derivations of the wiphala (the Inca rainbow flag) have a patchwork of rainbow squares:
Edward Mooney, Jr.'s "Flag Detective" Flag identifier
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