Capital

Lima

Continent

South America

Flag adopted

1825

Designer

Not individually credited

Peru

Colors and meaning

• Red #D91023

  Blood shed by those who fought for independence

• White #FFFFFF

  Peace

Symbolism and history

A red-white-red vertical tricolor bears the national coat of arms, featuring a vicuña, a cinchona tree and a cornucopia representing the country's animal, plant and mineral wealth, on state versions of the flag.

Closest-looking flags

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  Canada

  Shares its red-white-red vertical band sequence with Canada's flag (in different proportions) and, in horizontal form, with Austria's.

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  Austria

  Shares its red-white-red vertical band sequence with Canada's flag (in different proportions) and, in horizontal form, with Austria's.

Further reading: Flag of Peru on Wikipedia