India vs Niger

Both are saffron-or-orange, white, and green horizontal tricolors. India is 2:3 with a navy wheel of 24 spokes in the white band. Niger is nearly square at 6:7 with a plain orange disc. The wheel is India; the disc is Niger.

Play Similarities

India

Niger

Proportion: 2:3
Adopted: 1947

Colors

Saffron #FF9933
White #FFFFFF
Green #138808
Navy #000080

Proportion: 6:7
Adopted: 1959

Colors

Orange #E05206
White #FFFFFF
Green #0DB02B

Look foron India

Look foron Niger

Navy Ashoka Chakra with 24 spokes in the white band

Solid orange disc centered in the white band
2:3 ratio; saffron always on top

6:7 ratio, close to square
Adopted by the Constituent Assembly on July 22, 1947

Adopted November 23, 1959

Which flag is India?

A Wheel and a Sun on the Same Three Bands

India's Tiranga was adopted on July 22, 1947, from the Indian National Congress Swaraj flag. Saffron, white, and green stay in equal bands. The navy wheel in the white band is the Ashoka Chakra, and the flag code requires 24 spokes. Pingali Venkayya is credited with the design. Legal proportion is 2:3.

Niger adopted its flag on November 23, 1959. Orange stands for the Sahara, white for peace, and green for the southern farmland. The orange disc is the sun, centered in the white band. The legal ratio is 6:7, so the flag looks short and wide next to India's longer rectangle.

From a distance the palettes can match. Count the charge: spokes mean India, a plain disc means Niger. India's hoist-to-fly length is also clearly longer.

Telling them apart

India: navy wheel. Niger: orange disc with no spokes.
India 2:3. Niger 6:7.
Hex values here are common reference chips, not a claim that either statute publishes a Pantone number.