South Sudan's flag: black, red and green bands edged in white, with a blue triangle holding a gold star at the hoist. It represents South Sudan and South Sudanese people.
South Sudanese people use it for national pride, Independence Day and family news. Basketball fans post it to cheer the national team, which has risen fast on the world stage ๐.
It is a different country from ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan, which it split from.
Facts
Flag: South Sudan ๐ธ๐ธ 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 :south_sudan: or :flag_south_sudan:. People also look for it with words like โSSโ 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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