🇧🇯
What 🇧🇯 means
A tri-colored rectangular flag with a vertical portion of deep-green on the left, the outline of which gives rise to horizontal stripes of red at the top and yellow below it.
The 🇧🇯 Flag: Benin emoji refers to the West African country; Benin, officially named the Republic of Benin. On some platforms, flag emojis are replaced with initials, thus making this one 'BJ' in those cases.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇧🇯 Benin Flag
- 🇧🇯 Flag of the Republic of Benin
- 🇧🇯 Beninese Flag
- 🇧🇯 Country Code - BJ
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1E7 U+1F1EF- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:benin:GitHub:flag-bj:Slack:flag_bj:Discord:bj: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
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