Diaspora pride, marathon jerseys, safari branding: Kenya's black, red and green stripes turn up across all of it, with a red Maasai shield and two crossed spears anchored at the center as a warrior's guard over it all. Black represents the people, red the bloodshed of independence, green the land, and white peace. It was adopted at independence in 1963.
What 🇰🇪 means
A horizontal triband of black, red, and green, with the middle stripe bordered in white. At the center is a red oval-shaped structure with sharp edges.
The said oval-shaped structure also interpreted as the Maasai shield, is detailed with black concaves on either side, a white dot in the middle, and white bean-shaped ovals above and below it, with a pair of white spears behind the overall shield.
The 🇰🇪 Flag: Kenya emoji refers to the East African country of Kenya, also known as the Republic of Kenya, from an official POV. This emoji is shown as 'KE' on platforms that don't support flag emojis.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇰🇪 Flag of Kenya
- 🇰🇪 Flag of the Republic of Kenya
- 🇰🇪 Kenyan Flag
- 🇰🇪 Country Code - KE
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1F0 U+1F1EA- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:kenya:GitHub:flag-ke:Slack:flag_ke:Discord:ke: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: Kenya or 🧑🌾 Farmer?