The flag of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast): orange, white and green vertical stripes. It stands for the West African country of Abidjan and Yamoussoukro.
Ivorians use 🇨🇮 for the Elephants football team, coupé-décalé music and pride in Abidjan's nightlife. Diaspora in France posts it often.
It is the mirror image of 🇮🇪 Ireland, which puts green at the pole side. Mixing them up is a classic mistake.
Facts
Flag: Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 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 :cote_divoire: or :flag_cote_divoire:. People also look for it with words like “CI” or “flag”.
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.