What ๐ฑ๐ฆ means
Laos, a landlocked Southeast Asian country, flies red, a wide blue band, and red, with a white disc in the center.
Backpackers post ๐ฑ๐ฆ from Luang Prabang, the Mekong and Vang Vieng. Lao people abroad use it for heritage and Lao New Year in April.
The white disc is often read as a full moon over the Mekong River.
Facts
Flag: Laos ๐ฑ๐ฆ 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 :laos: or :flag_laos:. People also look for it with words like โLAโ 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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