Capital

Port-au-Prince

Continent

North America

Flag adopted

1986

Designer

Not individually credited

Haiti

Colors and meaning

• Blue #00209F

  The country's Black population, drawn from the French tricolor's blue with its white section removed

• Red #D21034

  The country's mixed-race population, from the same 1803 removal of white from the French flag

Symbolism and history

A blue-over-red bicolor, created in 1803 when Haitian revolutionaries tore the white band from the French tricolor as a deliberate rejection of colonial France, restored in 1986 after decades of alternate black-and-red dictatorship-era flags.

Closest-looking flags

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  Liechtenstein

  Was identical to Liechtenstein's flag until the two nations' resemblance was noticed at the 1936 Olympics, prompting Liechtenstein to add a crown; also shares its blue-and-red palette with the Dominican Republic, its neighbor on Hispaniola.

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  Dominican Republic

  Was identical to Liechtenstein's flag until the two nations' resemblance was noticed at the 1936 Olympics, prompting Liechtenstein to add a crown; also shares its blue-and-red palette with the Dominican Republic, its neighbor on Hispaniola.

Further reading: Flag of Haiti on Wikipedia