What ๐ณ๐ช means
Niger's flag: orange, white and green horizontal bands, with an orange circle in the center. It represents the West African country of Niger.
Nigeriens use it for national pride, Independence Day and family news. It also tags posts about Niamey, the Niger River and the Sahara.
People often mix it up with ๐ฎ๐ณ India, which has a blue wheel instead of an orange circle, and mix up Niger with neighboring ๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria.
Facts
Flag: Niger ๐ณ๐ช 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 :niger: or :flag_niger:. People also look for it with words like โNEโ 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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