That black trident on Barbados's flag is missing its handle on purpose. The broken shaft marks a deliberate split from Britannia's full trident on the old colonial badge, set between two bands of ultramarine for sea and sky around a strip of gold for the island's beaches. It was adopted on November 30, 1966, the exact day Barbados became independent.
What 🇧🇧 means
A vertical triband of navy blue stripes on the extremes and yellow at the center. The yellow stripe on this rectangular flag carries a black imprint of the trident head.
The 🇧🇧 Flag: Barbados emoji represents Barbados, an island country of West Indies situated in the Caribbean region. It is shown as 'BB' on platforms that don't support flag emojis.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇧🇧 Barbados Flag
- 🇧🇧 Flag of Barbados
- 🇧🇧 Barbadian Flag
- 🇧🇧 Country Code - BB
- 🇧🇧 Bajan Flag
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1E7 U+1F1E7- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:barbados:GitHub:flag-bb:Slack:flag_bb:Discord:bb: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: Barbados or 🐝 Honeybee?