Liberia's flag echoes the Stars and Stripes on purpose: eleven red and white stripes for the eleven signers of its 1847 independence declaration. A single white star sits alone on the blue canton, and the likeness traces to Liberia's founding by freed African Americans resettled from the United States in the 1800s. Locals sometimes call it the Lone Star for that star in the corner.
What 🇱🇷 means
A rectangular flag with red and white horizontal stripes in the background and the union jack to the top-right corner. The 🇱🇷 Flag: Liberia emoji refers to the Republic of Liberia, a nation alongside the coast of West Africa.
This emoji is shown as 'LR' on some platforms.
The flag itself shows eleven red and white stripes with a single white star on blue — closely modeled on the US flag by freed American settlers, with one star for Africa's first republic. 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 Liberia
- 🇱🇷 Flag of the Republic of Liberia
- 🇱🇷 Liberian Flag
- 🇱🇷 Country Code - LR
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1F1 U+1F1F7- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:liberia:GitHub:flag-lr:Slack:flag_lr:Discord:lr: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: Liberia or 🌤️ Sun Behind Small Cloud?