Look-alikes · Gambia · Latvia
Gambia vs Latvia
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Gambia and Latvia are 26% apart. They are closer than 99% of the flag pairs in the world.
Gambia is red at the top and green at the bottom; Latvia is red at both ends.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Gambia, matched with the nearest colour on Latvia, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #3a7728#9d223599
- #ce1126#ffffff238
- #0c1c8conly on Gambia
- #ffffffonly on Gambia
How they are put together
Both were measured as horizontal bands.
Gambia is flown 1.50 : 1 and Latvia 2.00 : 1.
What each one carries
Neither carries a charge. The difference is all colour and shape.
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 Gambia and Latvia score 65.7 out of 255, which is the 26% 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.