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Heard Island and McDonald Islands vs French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Heard Island and McDonald Islands and French Southern and Antarctic Lands are 36% apart. They are closer than 98% of the flag pairs in the world.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Heard Island and McDonald Islands, matched with the nearest colour on French Southern and Antarctic Lands, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #012169#214d9b50
- #ffffff#ffffff0
- #e4002b#eb2e2e46
The colour that separates them is a blue: #012169 against #214d9b, 50 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as a single-coloured ground, a canton.
What each one carries
French Southern and Antarctic Lands carries a star. Heard Island and McDonald Islands carries nothing at all.
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 Heard Island and McDonald Islands and French Southern and Antarctic Lands score 93 out of 255, which is the 36% 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.