Red dominates the Maldives' flag, wrapped around a green rectangle that frames a single white crescent moon standing upright, with no star alongside it. Red marks the sacrifice of those who defended the islands, green stands for peace and prosperity, and the crescent alone signals Islam as the state religion. The current design dates to 1965, the year of independence from Britain.
What 🇲🇻 means
A green flag with a thick red border enclosing the fabric and a right-facing white crescent moon at the center. The 🇲🇻 Flag: Maldives emoji refers to the South Asian archipelago which also forms a state, the Republic of Maldives.
This emoji is shown as 'MV' on some platforms.
The flag itself shows a green rectangle bearing a white crescent, framed in red — the crescent for Islam, red for the nation's defenders. 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 Maldives
- 🇲🇻 Flag of the Republic of Maldives
- 🇲🇻 Maldivian Flag
- 🇲🇻 Country Code - MV
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1F2 U+1F1FB- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:maldives:GitHub:flag-mv:Slack:flag_mv:Discord:mv: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: Maldives or 🏃♂️➡️ Man Running: Facing Right?