Look-alikes · Northern Mariana Islands · Somalia
Northern Mariana Islands vs Somalia
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Northern Mariana Islands and Somalia are 29% apart. They are closer than 99% of the flag pairs in the world.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Northern Mariana Islands, matched with the nearest colour on Somalia, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #0033a1#418fde92
- #ffffff#ffffff0
- #b1b4b3only on Northern Mariana Islands
How they are put together
Both were measured as a single-coloured ground.
What each one carries
Both carry a star.
Northern Mariana Islands carries a flower and a wreath. Somalia 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 Northern Mariana Islands and Somalia score 75.1 out of 255, which is the 29% 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.