Egypt flag emoji 🇪🇬
🇪🇬 is the flag of Egypt, ISO code EG. Copy it here.
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About the Egypt flag emoji
The Egypt flag emoji 🇪🇬 shows red, white and black horizontal bands with the golden Eagle of Saladin in the centre. Under the hood, EG is the regional indicator symbols E G; the Egypt flag appears whenever E and G are displayed together. Windows has no flag artwork, so there EG appears as the letters E G. Egypt (EG) joined the flag set in Emoji 1.0 (2015); EG renders on every major platform except Windows. Copy EG from the card; the flag emoji hub groups Egypt with the other Middle East flags, such as Syria, listed beside Egypt.
Unicode name: flag: Egypt · U+1F1EA U+1F1EC · Emoji 2.0 (2015) · group: Flags.
How people use it
- National pride: Egypt (EG) next to a name, a result or a holiday post, Egyptian style
- Travel: a trip to Egypt, a photo location, or a “from → to” bio with EG
- Language: EG as shorthand for the language of Egypt in menus, captions and bios about Egypt
- Sport: team line-ups, match threads and medal tables for EG, Egypt
- In other languages: Spanish Egipto, French Égypte, German Ägypten
Compare the options
| Emoji | Name | Use it for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| flag: EgyptU+1F1EA U+1F1EC | EG: the Egypt flag | ISO code EG | |
| flag: SyriaU+1F1F8 U+1F1FE | Near Egypt: code SY | Middle East, like Egypt | |
| flag: IranU+1F1EE U+1F1F7 | Near Egypt: code IR | Middle East, like Egypt | |
| flag: Saudi ArabiaU+1F1F8 U+1F1E6 | Near Egypt: code SA | Middle East, like Egypt |
What “bandera de Egipto” means in English
In Spanish, the Egypt flag is called “bandera de Egipto”. The word bandera means flag, and Egipto is the Spanish spelling of Egypt, so the phrase translates directly to “flag of Egypt”. A shorter form, “bandera egipto”, appears in informal writing where the preposition is dropped, but the standard phrase includes de.
The term is standard in Spanish, so you may encounter it in any context where the Egyptian flag is mentioned. If you see “bandera de Egipto” in a post, it refers to the same national flag as the 🇪🇬 emoji. An example sentence would be “La bandera de Egipto es roja, blanca y negra.”
Questions people ask
What flag is 🇪🇬?
🇪🇬 is the flag of Egypt — red, white and black horizontal bands with the golden Eagle of Saladin in the centre.
How do I type the Egypt flag emoji?
Search “Egypt” in the emoji keyboard’s Flags section, type :flag_eg: in Discord or Slack, or copy EG from this page: it is the regional indicators E and G.
Why does the Egypt flag show as letters?
Windows has never shipped flag images, so the Egypt flag becomes the letters E G there; every other major platform draws EG.
About this guide
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