Afghanistan flag emoji 🇦🇫
🇦🇫 is the flag of Afghanistan, ISO code AF. Copy it here.
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About the Afghanistan flag emoji
Flag of Afghanistan, black, red and green vertical bands with the national emblem in white; platforms updated since 2021 vary in which Afghan flag they show. The emoji is 🇦🇫. The characters behind the Afghanistan flag are the regional indicators for A and F, spelling AF; two such letters in a row always render as one flag: Afghanistan’s. Windows has no flag artwork, so there AF appears as the letters A F. Afghanistan (AF) joined the flag set in Emoji 1.0 (2015); AF renders on every major platform except Windows. Copy AF from the card; the flag emoji hub groups Afghanistan with the other Asia flags, such as Vietnam, listed beside Afghanistan.
Unicode name: flag: Afghanistan · U+1F1E6 U+1F1EB · Emoji 2.0 (2015) · group: Flags.
How people use it
- National pride: Afghanistan (AF) next to a name, a result or a holiday post, Afghan style
- Travel: a trip to Afghanistan, a photo location, or a “from → to” bio with AF
- Language: AF as shorthand for the language of Afghanistan in menus, captions and bios about Afghanistan
- Sport: team line-ups, match threads and medal tables for AF, Afghanistan
- In other languages: Spanish Afganistán, French Afghanistan, German Afghanistan
Compare the options
| Emoji | Name | Use it for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| flag: AfghanistanU+1F1E6 U+1F1EB | AF: the Afghanistan flag | ISO code AF | |
| flag: VietnamU+1F1FB U+1F1F3 | Near Afghanistan: code VN | Asia, like Afghanistan | |
| flag: Macao SAR ChinaU+1F1F2 U+1F1F4 | Near Afghanistan: code MO | Asia, like Afghanistan | |
| flag: PakistanU+1F1F5 U+1F1F0 | Near Afghanistan: code PK | Asia, like Afghanistan |
How the Afghanistan flag emoji works across languages
The Afghanistan flag emoji 🇦🇫 keeps the same meaning across languages, even though its name changes in translation. The symbol itself does not depend on the language of the sender or receiver.
Because flag emoji are part of the Unicode standard, their meaning does not change with a device’s language setting. When you send 🇦🇫, the recipient sees the Afghanistan flag whether their phone is set to English, Spanish, or any other language.
In a mixed group chat, a friend in Madrid and a friend in London both read the same message with 🇦🇫 and understand it as the Afghanistan flag.
Questions people ask
What flag is 🇦🇫?
🇦🇫 is the flag of Afghanistan — black, red and green vertical bands with the national emblem in white; platforms updated since 2021 vary in which Afghan flag they show.
How do I type the Afghanistan flag emoji?
Search “Afghanistan” in the emoji keyboard’s Flags section, type :flag_af: in Discord or Slack, or copy AF from this page: it is the regional indicators A and F.
Why does the Afghanistan flag show as letters?
Windows has never shipped flag images, so the Afghanistan flag becomes the letters A F there; every other major platform draws AF.
About this guide
Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.
