Colombia flag emoji ๐จ๐ด
๐จ๐ด is the flag of Colombia, ISO code CO. Copy it here.
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About the Colombia flag emoji
The Colombia flag emoji ๐จ๐ด shows a wide yellow band over blue and red horizontal bands. Under the hood, CO is the regional indicator symbols C O; the Colombia flag appears whenever C and O are displayed together. Windows has no flag artwork, so there CO appears as the letters C O. Colombia (CO) joined the flag set in Emoji 1.0 (2015); CO renders on every major platform except Windows. Copy CO from the card; the flag emoji hub groups Colombia with the other South America flags, such as Bolivia, listed beside Colombia.
Unicode name: flag: Colombia ยท U+1F1E8 U+1F1F4 ยท Emoji 2.0 (2015) ยท group: Flags.
How people use it
- National pride: Colombia (CO) next to a name, a result or a holiday post, Colombian style
- Travel: a trip to Colombia, a photo location, or a โfrom โ toโ bio with CO
- Language: CO as shorthand for the language of Colombia in menus, captions and bios about Colombia
- Sport: team line-ups, match threads and medal tables for CO, Colombia
- In other languages: Spanish Colombia, French Colombie, German Kolumbien
Compare the options
| Emoji | Name | Use it for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| flag: ColombiaU+1F1E8 U+1F1F4 | CO: the Colombia flag | ISO code CO | |
| flag: BoliviaU+1F1E7 U+1F1F4 | Near Colombia: code BO | South America, like Colombia | |
| flag: BrazilU+1F1E7 U+1F1F7 | Near Colombia: code BR | South America, like Colombia | |
| flag: VenezuelaU+1F1FB U+1F1EA | Near Colombia: code VE | South America, like Colombia |
Colombian flag emoji and the Spanish bandera de Colombia
The Colombian flag emoji ๐จ๐ด is the same symbol as the Colombia flag emoji: a tricolour with a wide yellow top band, a blue middle band and a red lower band. The adjective form simply reflects standard English phrasing; for example, a traveller might add ๐จ๐ด to a photo caption along with a Colombian city name. So if you spot ๐จ๐ด next to a location or a football result, it refers to the exact same national flag.
In Spanish, the flag is called bandera de Colombia. The emoji itself is still the same two-letter regional indicator pair, so nothing changes in how it renders; only the surrounding language differs. You might see it in posts celebrating Colombian Independence Day or in messages that simply say bandera de Colombia ๐จ๐ด. The flag keeps the same meaning across languages, even when the words around it change.
The meaning behind the colours
The yellow band takes up the top half of the flag, while blue and red share the lower half. Yellow symbolises the gold found in Colombian soil, blue stands for the two oceans that border Colombia, and red represents the blood shed during the fight for independence.
The design was first used by Francisco de Miranda in 1806 and later became the basis for the flag of Gran Colombia. Todayโs flag keeps the same yellow, blue and red layout.
Questions people ask
What flag is ๐จ๐ด?
๐จ๐ด is the flag of Colombia โ a wide yellow band over blue and red horizontal bands.
How do I type the Colombia flag emoji?
Search โColombiaโ in the emoji keyboardโs Flags section, type :flag_co: in Discord or Slack, or copy CO from this page: it is the regional indicators C and O.
Why does the Colombia flag show as letters?
Windows has never shipped flag images, so the Colombia flag becomes the letters C O there; every other major platform draws CO.
About this guide
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