Look-alikes · DR Congo · Namibia
DR Congo vs Namibia
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
DR Congo and Namibia are 33% apart. They are closer than 98% of the flag pairs in the world.
DR Congo is blue with a yellow diagonal and one star; Namibia is a red diagonal between blue and green.
Where the difference is
Each colour on DR Congo, matched with the nearest colour on Namibia, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #007fff#002f6c147
- #ce1021#c8102e13
- #f7d618#ffcd0024
The colour that separates them is a blue: #007fff against #002f6c, 147 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as a diagonal division.
DR Congo is flown 1.33 : 1 and Namibia 1.50 : 1.
What each one carries
DR Congo carries a star. Namibia carries a sun.
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 DR Congo and Namibia score 85.4 out of 255, which is the 33% 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.
Also close
The flags the pipeline measured nearest to these two.