North Macedonia's flag: a yellow sun on a red field, with eight rays that widen out to the edges. It means the country, its people or Macedonian heritage.
Used for national pride, handball and basketball games, and travel to Skopje and Lake Ohrid. Macedonians abroad add it to profiles and holiday greetings.
The emoji's name changed from "Macedonia" to "North Macedonia" when the country adopted its current name.
Facts
Flag: North Macedonia ๐ฒ๐ฐ 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 :macedonia: or :flag_north_macedonia:. People also look for it with words like โMKโ 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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