England's flag, the St. George's Cross: a red cross on a white field. It stands for England specifically, not the whole United Kingdom.
Football fans use it for the Three Lions and "it's coming home" โฝ๐ฆ, and cricket and rugby fans use it too. It also marks St. George's Day in April.
People often send ๐ฌ๐ง when they mean England. On old systems this flag may appear as a plain black flag ๐ด.
Facts
Flag: England ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ is an emoji in the flags category, under subdivision flag. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :england: or :flag_england:. People also look for it with words like โflagโ or โgbengโ.
Timeline
2017Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 5.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2017
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.