Capital

Beijing

Continent

Asia

Flag adopted

1949

Designer

Zeng Liansong

China

Colors and meaning

• Red #DE2910

  Revolution and the Communist Party

• Yellow #FFDE00

  Light radiating from the Communist Party, and traditionally an imperial color

Symbolism and history

A large yellow star representing the Communist Party is joined by four smaller stars for the social classes named in Mao-era ideology, all arranged as if the smaller stars orbit the large one, adopted months before the People's Republic was proclaimed in 1949.

Closest-looking flags

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  Vietnam

  Shares communist-era red-field-with-yellow-star symbolism with Vietnam's flag, though Vietnam uses a single large star rather than a five-star cluster.

Further reading: Flag of China on Wikipedia