What ๐ฑ๐ธ means
Lesotho, a mountain kingdom inside South Africa, has blue, white and green stripes with a black Basotho hat, the mokorotlo, in the center.
Basotho people use ๐ฑ๐ธ for national pride and heritage. Travelers post it from the highlands with pony trekking and snow.
Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa, and its high land earns it the nickname "Kingdom in the Sky".
Facts
Flag: Lesotho ๐ฑ๐ธ 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 :lesotho: or :flag_lesotho:. People also look for it with words like โLSโ 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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