What ๐ฑ๐พ means
Libya's flag: red, black and green horizontal bands with a white crescent and star in the center. Sent to mean Libya, Libyans, or Libyan identity.
Libyans at home and abroad use it for national pride, football matches, Eid greetings and family news. It also tags travel content about Tripoli, Benghazi, or the Roman ruins at Leptis Magna.
This tricolor replaced an earlier flag that was plain green. Older photos and some memories still connect Libya with that green flag.
Facts
Flag: Libya ๐ฑ๐พ 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 :libya: or :flag_libya:. People also look for it with words like โLYโ 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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