Vatican City's flag: yellow and white vertical halves, with crossed gold and silver keys under the papal tiara on the white side. It stands for the Vatican, the Pope and the Holy See.
Common in news about the Pope, conclaves and papal visits, and in Catholic posts with โช or ๐. Rome travelers tag St. Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel with it.
It is one of only two square national flags; the other belongs to ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland.
Facts
Flag: Vatican City ๐ป๐ฆ 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 :vatican_city: or :flag_vatican_city:. People also look for it with words like โVAโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
2017
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
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