Flag: Guinea-Bissau

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Shortcode
:guinea_bissau:
Shortcode
:flag_guinea_bissau:
Unicode
U+1F1EC U+1F1FC
HTML
🇬🇼
CSS
\1F1EC\1F1FC
JavaScript
"\u{1F1EC}\u{1F1FC}"
URL
%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%BC

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What ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ผ means

The flag of Guinea-Bissau: a red vertical band with a black star beside yellow over green. It stands for the small West African country with Bissau as its capital.

Bissau-Guineans use ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ผ for pride, football and heritage, especially in Portugal. Travelers post it from the Bijagรณs islands.

It is often confused with ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ณ Guinea next door. The country is Portuguese-speaking, unlike its French-speaking neighbor.

Facts

Flag: Guinea-Bissau ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ผ 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 :guinea_bissau: or :flag_guinea_bissau:. People also look for it with words like โ€œGWโ€ or โ€œflagโ€.

Timeline

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

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. flag: Guinea-Bissau, Google (Noto) design from 20152015

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. flag: Guinea-Bissau, 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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