Capital

Skopje

Continent

Europe

Flag adopted

1995

Designer

Not individually credited

North Macedonia

Colors and meaning

• Red #D20000

  Historic ties to earlier Macedonian and Balkan liberation banners

• Yellow #FFE600

  The golden sun, and the country's identity

Symbolism and history

A golden sun with eight broadening rays radiates from the center of a red field, adopted in 1995 as a compromise after Greece formally objected to the country's first post-independence flag, which had used the 16-ray Vergina Sun tied to ancient Greek royal heraldry.

No documented visual overlap

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

• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland

Further reading: Flag of North Macedonia on Wikipedia