Madagascar flag emoji 🇲🇬
🇲🇬 is the flag of Madagascar, ISO code MG. Copy it here.
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About the Madagascar flag emoji
🇲🇬 is the flag of Madagascar: a white vertical band at the hoist with red over green horizontal bands. Like every country flag, the Madagascar emoji is really two regional indicator letters, M and G, spelling the ISO code MG; side by side, MG merge into the Madagascar flag. Windows has no flag artwork, so there MG appears as the letters M G. Madagascar (MG) joined the flag set in Emoji 1.0 (2015); MG renders on every major platform except Windows. Copy MG from the card; the flag emoji hub groups Madagascar with the other Africa flags, such as Burkina Faso, listed beside Madagascar.
Unicode name: flag: Madagascar · U+1F1F2 U+1F1EC · Emoji 2.0 (2015) · group: Flags.
How people use it
- National pride: Madagascar (MG) next to a name, a result or a holiday post, Malagasy style
- Travel: a trip to Madagascar, a photo location, or a “from → to” bio with MG
- Language: MG as shorthand for the language of Madagascar in menus, captions and bios about Madagascar
- Sport: team line-ups, match threads and medal tables for MG, Madagascar
- In other languages: Spanish Madagascar, French Madagascar, German Madagaskar
Compare the options
| Emoji | Name | Use it for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| flag: MadagascarU+1F1F2 U+1F1EC | MG: the Madagascar flag | ISO code MG | |
| flag: Burkina FasoU+1F1E7 U+1F1EB | Near Madagascar: code BF | Africa, like Madagascar | |
| flag: BotswanaU+1F1E7 U+1F1FC | Near Madagascar: code BW | Africa, like Madagascar | |
| flag: MauritiusU+1F1F2 U+1F1FA | Near Madagascar: code MU | Africa, like Madagascar |
The French name for the Madagascar flag
French is an official language of Madagascar, so the flag sometimes appears under its French name: drapeau malgache, or ‘flag of Madagascar’. If you see that phrase in a French caption or article, it refers to the same flag emoji.
The emoji 🇲🇬 works equally well in a French or English message. The design does not change, so the meaning stays clear regardless of the language around it.
Questions people ask
What flag is 🇲🇬?
🇲🇬 is the flag of Madagascar — a white vertical band at the hoist with red over green horizontal bands.
How do I type the Madagascar flag emoji?
Search “Madagascar” in the emoji keyboard’s Flags section, type :flag_mg: in Discord or Slack, or copy MG from this page: it is the regional indicators M and G.
Why does the Madagascar flag show as letters?
Windows has never shipped flag images, so the Madagascar flag becomes the letters M G there; every other major platform draws MG.
About this guide
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