Cuban exiles in New York stitched this design together in 1849; it became official at independence in 1902. The three blue stripes stand for the old colonial districts, the two white ones for the purity of the cause, and the red triangle with its single star, the Lone Star, marks the fight for unity. Puerto Rico later borrowed the same bones with the colors swapped.
What 🇨🇺 means
A rectangular flag with a red horizontal triangle emerging from the left, designed with a white five-pointed star. The rest of the flag is further divided into five horizontal stripes of alternate blue and white.
The 🇨🇺 Flag: Cuba emoji represents the Republic of Cuba, also known as just 'Cuba'; a combined country in the northern Caribbean. It consists of the Cuban island, Isla de la Juventud and other group of islands.
This emoji is shown as 'CU' on some platforms.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇨🇺 Cuban Flag
- 🇨🇺 Flag of the Republic of Cuba
- 🇨🇺 Cuba Flag
- 🇨🇺 Country Code - CU
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1E8 U+1F1FA- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:cuba:GitHub:flag-cu:Slack:flag_cu:Discord:cu: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: Cuba or 🪿 Goose?