The flag of Western Sahara as shown in the emoji set: black, white and green stripes with a red triangle and a red crescent and star. It is the flag of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
Sahrawi people and their supporters use ๐ช๐ญ for identity and self-determination. It also appears in news and geography posts about the territory.
The territory's status is disputed: Morocco controls most of it and claims it, while the Polisario Front seeks independence. Using the flag can read as taking a side.
Facts
Flag: Western Sahara ๐ช๐ญ 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 :western_sahara: or :flag_western_sahara:. People also look for it with words like โEHโ 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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