Costa Rica flag emoji 🇨🇷
🇨🇷 is the flag of Costa Rica, ISO code CR. Copy it here.
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About the Costa Rica flag emoji
🇨🇷 is the flag of Costa Rica: blue, white, red, white and blue horizontal bands with a wide red centre. Like every country flag, the Costa Rica emoji is really two regional indicator letters, C and R, spelling the ISO code CR; side by side, CR merge into the Costa Rica flag. Windows has no flag artwork, so there CR appears as the letters C R. Costa Rica (CR) joined the flag set in Emoji 1.0 (2015); CR renders on every major platform except Windows. Copy CR from the card; the flag emoji hub groups Costa Rica with the other Central America flags, such as Belize, listed beside Costa Rica.
Unicode name: flag: Costa Rica · U+1F1E8 U+1F1F7 · Emoji 2.0 (2015) · group: Flags.
How people use it
- National pride: Costa Rica (CR) next to a name, a result or a holiday post, Tico style
- Travel: a trip to Costa Rica, a photo location, or a “from → to” bio with CR
- Language: CR as shorthand for the language of Costa Rica in menus, captions and bios about Costa Rica
- Sport: team line-ups, match threads and medal tables for CR, Costa Rica
- In other languages: Spanish Costa Rica, French Costa Rica, German Costa Rica
Compare the options
| Emoji | Name | Use it for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| flag: Costa RicaU+1F1E8 U+1F1F7 | CR: the Costa Rica flag | ISO code CR | |
| flag: BelizeU+1F1E7 U+1F1FF | Near Costa Rica: code BZ | Central America, like Costa Rica | |
| flag: PanamaU+1F1F5 U+1F1E6 | Near Costa Rica: code PA | Central America, like Costa Rica | |
| flag: HondurasU+1F1ED U+1F1F3 | Near Costa Rica: code HN | Central America, like Costa Rica |
The Spanish name for the Costa Rica flag
In Spanish, the Costa Rica flag is la bandera de Costa Rica, often shortened informally to bandera Costa Rica in searches and casual writing. The design is the same: five horizontal bands, blue, white, red (double width), white and blue. If you’re writing to Spanish-speaking friends or posting about Costa Rica, 🇨🇷 is understood everywhere. The Spanish name also helps when looking for the emoji on a Spanish-language keyboard. The real flag’s layout matches the emoji: blue and white bands are equal width, and the red band in the centre is twice as wide.
Questions people ask
What flag is 🇨🇷?
🇨🇷 is the flag of Costa Rica — blue, white, red, white and blue horizontal bands with a wide red centre.
How do I type the Costa Rica flag emoji?
Search “Costa Rica” in the emoji keyboard’s Flags section, type :flag_cr: in Discord or Slack, or copy CR from this page: it is the regional indicators C and R.
Why does the Costa Rica flag show as letters?
Windows has never shipped flag images, so the Costa Rica flag becomes the letters C R there; every other major platform draws CR.
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.
