Capital

Minsk

Continent

Europe

Flag adopted

2012

Designer

Not individually credited

Belarus

Colors and meaning

• Red #D22730

  The Belarusian people's historic struggle, from the arms of the medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania

• Green #00AF66

  The forests and fields covering much of the country

Symbolism and history

A wide red band over a narrow green band carries a traditional red-and-white ornamental pattern (rushnik) along the hoist, a modernized 2012 redraw of the flag first adopted under Soviet-era Belarus with the hammer and sickle removed in 1995.

No documented visual overlap

Belarus’s design isn’t a close visual match for any other current national flag. A few more flags from Europe, for browsing:

• Holy See
• Hungary
• Iceland

Further reading: Flag of Belarus on Wikipedia