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Åland Islands vs Iceland
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%. The app files them together as Nordic Crosses.
Åland Islands and Iceland are 36% apart. They are closer than 98% of the flag pairs in the world.
Both carry a red cross inside another. Åland Islands rings it in yellow; Iceland in white.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Åland Islands, matched with the nearest colour on Iceland, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #0064ad#02529c18
- #ffd300#dc1e35181
- #da0e15#ffffff241
The colour that separates them is red against white: #da0e15 against #ffffff, 241 apart.
How they are put together
Nothing about how they are built was measured the same on both.
Åland Islands is flown 1.53 : 1 and Iceland 1.39 : 1.
What each one carries
Both carry a cross.
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 Åland Islands and Iceland score 90.8 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.