- Capital
- New Delhi
- Continent
- Asia
- Flag adopted
- 1947
- Designer
- Not individually credited
India
Colors and meaning
Saffron #FF9933
Courage, sacrifice and the spirit of renunciation
White #FFFFFF
Truth and peace
Green #138808
Faith and chivalry, and the land's fertility
Symbolism and history
A navy Ashoka Chakra, a 24-spoke wheel taken from the Lion Capital of Ashoka, centers a saffron-white-green tricolor, adopted weeks before independence in 1947 with the wheel replacing the Indian National Congress's spinning-wheel charkha.
Closest-looking flags
Niger
Shares its orange-white-green horizontal tricolor palette with Niger's flag, and the reversed order with Côte d'Ivoire's, though only India carries the navy wheel emblem.
Côte d'Ivoire
Shares its orange-white-green horizontal tricolor palette with Niger's flag, and the reversed order with Côte d'Ivoire's, though only India carries the navy wheel emblem.
Further reading: Flag of India on Wikipedia