Red over green with a yellow star marks Burkina Faso, the landlocked West African country whose people are called Burkinabรจ.
Burkinabรจ people use ๐ง๐ซ for national pride and football. Film fans post it for FESPACO, the big African film festival held in Ouagadougou.
The country's name means roughly "land of upright people", a source of pride that often comes up alongside the flag.
Facts
Flag: Burkina Faso ๐ง๐ซ 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 :burkina_faso: or :flag_burkina_faso:. People also look for it with words like โBFโ 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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