Flag: Burkina Faso

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Shortcode
:burkina_faso:
Shortcode
:flag_burkina_faso:
Unicode
U+1F1E7 U+1F1EB
HTML
🇧🇫
CSS
\1F1E7\1F1EB
JavaScript
"\u{1F1E7}\u{1F1EB}"
URL
%F0%9F%87%A7%F0%9F%87%AB

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What ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ซ means

Red over green with a yellow star marks Burkina Faso, the landlocked West African country whose people are called Burkinabรจ.

Burkinabรจ people use ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ซ 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 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ซ 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 โ€œBFโ€ or โ€œflagโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. flag: Burkina Faso, Google (Noto) design from 20152015

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. flag: Burkina Faso, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

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