Flag emoji: all 258 country flags by region, ready to copy

How flag emoji work

Every country flag emoji is a pair of regional indicator letters spelling the country’s two-letter ISO 3166 code: 🇯 + 🇵 becomes 🇯🇵. There are 258 such pairs in Emoji 18.0, one for every ISO code including territories like 🇬🇱 Greenland and 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico. England, Scotland and Wales are different: they are tag sequences built on the black flag 🏴, which is why they show up on iPhone and Android but not on Windows. Windows shows every flag as two letters, because Microsoft has never shipped flag artwork; the platforms guide explains.

To identify a flag someone sent you, paste it into the search box on the home page — the directory matches the character itself — or open any flag below: each page states the country, the code and the design. The country flags with the most searches have their own guides, and every flag here links to one.

Europe (59 flags)

Asia (35 flags)

Middle East (16 flags)

Africa (59 flags)

North America (6 flags)

Central America (7 flags)

Caribbean (28 flags)

South America (14 flags)

Oceania (27 flags)

Other territories (11 flags)

Flags that are not countries

🏁 chequered flag, 🚩 triangular flag (the red flag), 🎌 crossed flags, 🏴 black flag, 🏳️ white flag, 🏳️‍🌈 rainbow flag, 🏳️‍⚧️ transgender flag and 🏴‍☠️ pirate flag are the eight non-country flags.

Flags that have no emoji

There is no emoji for any US state, city or region — no Texas, California, Florida or Hawaii flag, no Washington DC — and none for stateless nations or regions such as Catalonia, the Basque Country, Brittany, Kurdistan, Tibet or Quebec. Unicode’s policy since 2015 is to add no new subdivision flags beyond England, Scotland and Wales, which were accepted only because their tag sequences were already used. Mexican and Brazilian state flags, the Confederate flag, the Aboriginal Australian flag and Cornwall’s St Piran cross are all missing for the same reason.

People improvise: 🤠 or ⭐ for Texas, 🌴 for California and Florida, 🌺 for Hawaii, 🍁 for Canada’s provinces, and the regional indicator letters spaced apart (🇹 🇽) when a code is wanted. The coloured squares can build a rough flag: 🟥🟨🟥 for Spain, 🟦🟨 for Ukraine.

• Requested but not available: Texas, California, Florida, Hawaii, Washington DC, Chicago, New York, Catalonia, the Basque Country, Brittany, Kurdistan, Tibet, Quebec, Bavaria, Sicily, Puerto Rico’s municipalities, the Confederate flag, Aboriginal Australia, Cornwall, Zacatecas and other Mexican states.

Red and yellow flag emoji

Many national flags use red and yellow, either as horizontal stripes or with a symbol. Spain 🇪🇸 has red-yellow-red stripes and the coat of arms on the left. China 🇨🇳 also combines red with yellow stars, and Vietnam 🇻🇳 uses a yellow star on a red field.

• 🇪🇸 Spain – red-yellow-red horizontal stripes
• 🇨🇳 China – red with five yellow stars
• 🇻🇳 Vietnam – red with a yellow star
• 🇲🇰 North Macedonia – red with a yellow sun
• 🇲🇪 Montenegro – red with a gold double-headed eagle
• 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – red with a yellow sun

Red and yellow also appear in flags of some regions that don’t have their own emoji, like Catalonia’s senyera (yellow with red stripes) and New Mexico’s red symbol on yellow.

Hispanic flags emoji

Spanish-speaking places share Spanish as a main language. The flags are listed by region above, but this set groups the Spanish-speaking places together.

• 🇪🇸 Spain
• 🇲🇽 Mexico
• 🇦🇷 Argentina
• 🇨🇴 Colombia
• 🇨🇺 Cuba
• 🇵🇪 Peru
• 🇨🇱 Chile
• 🇻🇪 Venezuela
• 🇪🇨 Ecuador
• 🇬🇹 Guatemala
• 🇭🇳 Honduras
• 🇳🇮 Nicaragua
• 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
• 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico
• 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea (the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa)

Each flag’s page explains the design and meaning of the colours. Note that Puerto Rico’s flag is very close to Cuba’s with the colours reversed.

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