Capital

N'Djamena

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1959

Designer

Not individually credited

Chad

Colors and meaning

• Blue #002664

  Sky, hope and the water of the south

• Yellow #FECB00

  The sun and the desert north

• Red #C60C30

  Unity, sacrifice and progress

Symbolism and history

A plain blue-yellow-red vertical tricolor, chosen to distinguish Chad from neighboring Mali's near-identical green-yellow-red, but it ended up an almost exact match for Romania's flag, differing only in a slightly darker blue.

Closest-looking flags

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  Romania

  Near-identical to Romania's flag, differing only in a slightly darker blue; the resemblance is close enough that the two are frequently mixed up, and Chad has raised the issue with Romania in the past without any change resulting.

Further reading: Flag of Chad on Wikipedia