That red circle on Bangladesh's flag isn't actually centered; it's shifted slightly toward the hoist so it reads as centered once the flag is flying. Green stands for the delta's fields and forests, red for both the rising sun and the blood spent in the 1971 war for independence. The design was adopted in 1972, months after that war ended.
What 🇧🇩 means
A deep green rectangular flag with a large bright red/brick red dot at the center. The 🇧🇩 Flag: Bangladesh emoji represents the South Asian country of Bangladesh, officially known as the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
This emoji is shown as 'BD' on some platforms.
The flag itself shows a deep green field with a red disc set slightly toward the hoist — the green for the land's lushness, the red disc for the rising sun and the sacrifices of independence. As with every flag emoji, it's built from two regional-indicator letters, so a few platforms display the letter pair instead of the artwork.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇧🇩 Flag of Bangladesh
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh Flag
- 🇧🇩 Bangladeshi Flag
- 🇧🇩 Country Code - BD
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1E7 U+1F1E9- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:bangladesh:GitHub:flag-bd:Slack:flag_bd:Discord:bd: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: Bangladesh or 🍦 Soft Ice Cream?