What ๐ง๐ผ means
The flag of Botswana: light blue with a black horizontal stripe edged in white. It stands for the southern African country of the Okavango Delta and the Kalahari.
Safari travelers post ๐ง๐ผ with ๐ and ๐ฆ. Batswana use it for national pride, Independence Day on 30 September and their football team, the Zebras.
The blue stands for water and rain, precious in a dry country, and the black and white stripe recalls a zebra's coat.
Facts
Flag: Botswana ๐ง๐ผ is an emoji in the flags category, under country flag. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 2.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :botswana: or :flag_botswana:. People also look for it with words like โBWโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
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