Unlike most flags built around a headcount, the circle of twelve gold stars on the European Union's blue field has no link to the member count. The number was fixed in 1955 to symbolize completeness and unity, and it hasn't budged since, even as the union grew to 27 countries. Blue and gold have stood for Europe since before the EU itself existed.
What 🇪🇺 means
A rectangular navy blue flag with a circular arrangement of twelve tiny five-pointed yellow stars at the center. The 🇪🇺 Flag: European Union emoji represents the union of twenty-seven countries/states.
This emoji is shown as 'EU' on some platforms.
The flag itself shows a circle of twelve gold stars on deep blue — twelve for completeness and unity, not for the number of member states. 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 the European Flag
- 🇪🇺 EU Flag
- 🇪🇺 European Union Flag
- 🇪🇺 Union Code - EU
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1EA U+1F1FA- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:eu:GitHub · Discord:european_union:GitHub:flag-eu:Slack:flag_eu: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: European Union or 🆒 COOL Button?
Runs with a crowd
🇪🇺 keeps company in blue emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.