Capital

Tripoli

Continent

Africa

Flag adopted

2011

Designer

Not individually credited

Libya

Colors and meaning

• Red #E70013

  Blood of Libya's martyrs

• Black #000000

  The "dark days" of Italian colonial occupation, per the flag's original 1951 design; many 2011 protesters also read it as marking the end of the Gaddafi era

• Green #239E46

  Islam and agriculture

Symbolism and history

A black band bearing a white crescent and star sits between red and green bands, reviving the 1951 independence-era flag of the Kingdom of Libya after protesters rejected Gaddafi's plain green banner during the 2011 uprising.

No documented visual overlap

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

• South Africa
• South Sudan
• Sudan

Further reading: Flag of Libya on Wikipedia