Look-alikes · Burkina Faso · Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Burkina Faso vs Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Burkina Faso and Cocos (Keeling) Islands are 32% apart. They are closer than 99% of the flag pairs in the world.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Burkina Faso, matched with the nearest colour on Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #009e49#19472c87
- #ef2b2d#f8c700156
The colour that separates them is red against yellow: #ef2b2d against #f8c700, 156 apart.
How they are put together
Nothing about how they are built was measured the same on both.
Only Burkina Faso: horizontal bands. Only Cocos (Keeling) Islands: a single-coloured ground, a canton.
What each one carries
Burkina Faso carries a star. Cocos (Keeling) Islands carries a crescent and a tree.
How the number was arrived at
Both flags are drawn at 64×48 and cut into squares 8 across. Each square is averaged to one colour, and the score is the worst single square, so two flags that agree everywhere except one corner are as far apart as that corner, which is the right answer to a question about whether anybody could tell them apart. 0 is the same picture; the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
On that scale Burkina Faso and Cocos (Keeling) Islands score 81 out of 255, which is the 32% above.
It cannot see everything. Both flags are stretched to the same box, so Indonesia and Monaco, which differ in nothing else, are measured as their reds rather than as identical. The look-alikes page sets out the rest.
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The flags the pipeline measured nearest to these two.