Capital

Asmara

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

1995

Designer

Not individually credited

Eritrea

Colors and meaning

• Green #12AD2B

  Agriculture

• Blue #0F47AF

  The Red Sea and its marine resources

• Red #EA0437

  Blood shed in the thirty-year independence war

• Gold #FFCC00

  Mineral wealth

Symbolism and history

A red triangle bearing a gold olive wreath and star extends from the hoist between a green upper triangle and a blue lower triangle, a layout that directly reworks the flag flown by the Eritrean People's Liberation Front during the war with Ethiopia.

No documented visual overlap

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

• Algeria
• Angola
• Benin

Further reading: Flag of Eritrea on Wikipedia