Green, white and red first flew together in Reggio Emilia in 1797, decades before Italy was even one country, and the design outlived a kingdom to become Il Tricolore of the 1946 republic. These days it's less about politics and more about pizza, a Ferrari, or an actual trip to Rome.
What 🇮🇹 means
A rectangular flag with three vertical stripes of green, white and red, arranged from the left border to the right. The 🇮🇹 Flag: Italy emoji represents the South European country of Italy or the Italian Republic, which also shares its location in West Europe.
This emoji is shown as 'IT' on some platforms.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇮🇹 Flag of Italy
- 🇮🇹 Flag of the Italian Republic
- 🇮🇹 Italian Flag
- 🇮🇹 Country Code - IT
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1EE U+1F1F9- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:it::flag-it:Slack:flag_it: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: Italy or 🛞 Wheel?