Guinea-Bissau flag emoji 🇬🇼
🇬🇼 is the flag of Guinea-Bissau, ISO code GW. Copy it here.
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About the Guinea-Bissau flag emoji
A red vertical band with a black star, next to yellow over green horizontal bands — that is the Guinea-Bissau flag as an emoji, 🇬🇼. The Guinea-Bissau flag is built from the regional indicator letters G and W, the two-letter code GW, which fonts join into the single Guinea-Bissau flag. Windows has no flag artwork, so there GW appears as the letters G W. Guinea-Bissau (GW) joined the flag set in Emoji 1.0 (2015); GW renders on every major platform except Windows. Copy GW from the card; the flag emoji hub groups Guinea-Bissau with the other Africa flags, such as Gambia, listed beside Guinea-Bissau.
Unicode name: flag: Guinea-Bissau · U+1F1EC U+1F1FC · Emoji 2.0 (2015) · group: Flags.
How people use it
- National pride: Guinea-Bissau (GW) next to a name, a result or a holiday post, Guinea-Bissau style
- Travel: a trip to Guinea-Bissau, a photo location, or a “from → to” bio with GW
- Language: GW as shorthand for the language of Guinea-Bissau in menus, captions and bios about Guinea-Bissau
- Sport: team line-ups, match threads and medal tables for GW, Guinea-Bissau
- In other languages: Spanish Guinea-Bisáu, French Guinée-Bissau, German Guinea-Bissau
Compare the options
| Emoji | Name | Use it for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| flag: Guinea-BissauU+1F1EC U+1F1FC | GW: the Guinea-Bissau flag | ISO code GW | |
| flag: GambiaU+1F1EC U+1F1F2 | Near Guinea-Bissau: code GM | Africa, like Guinea-Bissau | |
| flag: RéunionU+1F1F7 U+1F1EA | Near Guinea-Bissau: code RE | Africa, like Guinea-Bissau | |
| flag: GuineaU+1F1EC U+1F1F3 | Near Guinea-Bissau: code GN | Africa, like Guinea-Bissau |
Questions people ask
What flag is 🇬🇼?
🇬🇼 is the flag of Guinea-Bissau — a red vertical band with a black star, next to yellow over green horizontal bands.
How do I type the Guinea-Bissau flag emoji?
Search “Guinea-Bissau” in the emoji keyboard’s Flags section, type :flag_gw: in Discord or Slack, or copy GW from this page: it is the regional indicators G and W.
Why does the Guinea-Bissau flag show as letters?
Windows has never shipped flag images, so the Guinea-Bissau flag becomes the letters G W there; every other major platform draws GW.
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.
