Skanderbeg raised a red banner with a black double-headed eagle against the Ottomans in 1443, and the design never really left. Albania's modern flag, adopted at independence in 1912, keeps that same eagle on the same red field, nearly five centuries running. You'll see it waved hard at football matches and by the Albanian diaspora worldwide.
What 🇦🇱 means
A brick-red or bright red rectangular flag printed with a black outline of a double-headed eagle at the center. The 🇦🇱 Flag: Albania emoji represents the southeast European country, Albania, officially known as the Republic of Albania.
This emoji is shown as 'AL' on some platforms.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇦🇱 Albanian Flag
- 🇦🇱 Flag of Albania
- 🇦🇱 Red Flag With Double-Headed Eagle
- 🇦🇱 Republic of Albania Flag
- 🇦🇱 Country Code - AL
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1E6 U+1F1F1- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:albania:GitHub:flag-al:Slack:flag_al:Discord:al:Discord- Keywords
- flag
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🇦🇱 Flag: Albania or 👩🦱 Woman: Curly Hair?