What 🇧🇼 means
A sky-blue rectangular flag with a thick horizontal stripe of black at the middle, sandwiched between two thin white lines. The 🇧🇼 Flag: Botswana emoji refers to the South African country, Botswana; officially labeled as the Republic of Botswana.
The flag itself shows light blue for water — precious in the Kalahari — crossed by a black band with white edges symbolizing racial harmony and the national zebra. 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
- 🇧🇼 Botswana Flag
- 🇧🇼 Flag of the Republic of Botswana
- 🇧🇼 Batswana Flag
- 🇧🇼 Country Code - BW
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1E7 U+1F1FC- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:botswana:GitHub:flag-bw:Slack:flag_bw:Discord:bw: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: Botswana or ✴️ Eight-pointed Star?