King George VI awarded the George Cross to the entire population of Malta in 1942, honoring its resilience under wartime siege, and the medal has sat on the flag's white half ever since. The other half is plain red, with the cross edged in red at the corner. Few national flags are built around a military honor rather than a heraldic device.
What 🇲🇹 means
A vertically halved rectangular flag with the left half being white and the right, red. To the top left of the white portion is a tiny print of the George Cross, outlined in red.
The 🇲🇹 Flag: Malta emoji represents the island country of Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta, an archipelago found towards the south of Europe. This emoji is shown as 'MT' on some platforms.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇲🇹 Flag of Malta
- 🇲🇹 Flag of the Republic of Malta
- 🇲🇹 Flag of Melita
- 🇲🇹 Maltese Flag
- 🇲🇹 Country Code - MT
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1F2 U+1F1F9- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:malta:GitHub:flag-mt:Slack:flag_mt:Discord:mt: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: Malta or 🧎♂️ Man Kneeling?