Flag: Sri Lanka

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Shortcode
:sri_lanka:
Shortcode
:flag_sri_lanka:
Unicode
U+1F1F1 U+1F1F0
HTML
🇱🇰
CSS
\1F1F1\1F1F0
JavaScript
"\u{1F1F1}\u{1F1F0}"
URL
%F0%9F%87%B1%F0%9F%87%B0

LKflag

What ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฐ means

Sri Lanka, the island nation south of India, flies a gold lion holding a sword on maroon, with green and orange stripes at the pole side.

Cricket fans post ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฐ during matches. Travelers use it for tea country, beaches and train rides, with ๐Ÿต and ๐Ÿš‚, and Sri Lankans for New Year in April.

The green and orange stripes stand for the Muslim and Tamil communities, beside the lion of the Sinhalese.

Facts

Flag: Sri Lanka ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฐ 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 :sri_lanka: or :flag_sri_lanka:. People also look for it with words like โ€œLKโ€ or โ€œflagโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. flag: Sri Lanka, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. flag: Sri Lanka, Google (Noto) design from 20182018

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. flag: Sri Lanka, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

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