Flag: Vatican City

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Shortcode
:vatican_city:
Shortcode
:flag_vatican_city:
Unicode
U+1F1FB U+1F1E6
HTML
🇻🇦
CSS
\1F1FB\1F1E6
JavaScript
"\u{1F1FB}\u{1F1E6}"
URL
%F0%9F%87%BB%F0%9F%87%A6

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What ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ฆ means

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 โ›ช or ๐Ÿ™. 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 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland.

Facts

Flag: Vatican City ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ฆ 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 โ€œVAโ€ or โ€œflagโ€.

Timeline

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

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. flag: Vatican City, Google (Noto) design from 20152015

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. flag: Vatican City, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016
  2. flag: Vatican City, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20172017

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

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