Capital

Vienna

Continent

Europe

Flag adopted

1191

Designer

Not individually credited

Austria

Colors and meaning

• Red #ED2939

  Said in legend to come from the blood-soaked, sword-cut tabard of Duke Leopold V after the Siege of Acre in 1191

• White #FFFFFF

  The one unstained band of that same tabard

Symbolism and history

A plain red-white-red horizontal tricolor, among the oldest state flags in continuous use in the world, with a design tradition traced back to the 13th century.

Closest-looking flags

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  Latvia

  Shares the same red-white-red horizontal band sequence as Latvia's flag, though Latvia's red is a distinctly darker maroon.

Further reading: Flag of Austria on Wikipedia