Capital

Sarajevo

Continent

Europe

Flag adopted

1998

Designer

Not individually credited

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Colors and meaning

• Blue #002395

  Peace and, echoing the EU flag, cooperation with Europe

• Yellow #FECB00

  Hope and the sun

• White #FFFFFF

  Stars for the country's constituent peoples

Symbolism and history

A yellow triangle representing the country's shape sits beside a blue field scattered with white stars, a deliberately neutral design imposed by the international community's High Representative in 1998 after ethnic groups could not agree on a flag following the Bosnian War.

No documented visual overlap

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

• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg

Further reading: Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wikipedia