Mauritius flies four equal horizontal bands, red over blue over yellow over green, a layout few other national flags share. Each color once matched a political party active around independence in 1968, and together they're now read as struggle, the surrounding ocean, a hopeful future, and the island's farmland. Locals call it simply Les Quatre Bandes, the four bands.
What 🇲🇺 means
A rectangular flag with four horizontal stripes; red, blue, yellow, and green. The 🇲🇺 Flag: Mauritius emoji represents the island of Mauritius found in the Indian Ocean. It is officially addressed as the Republic of Mauritius.
This emoji is shown as 'MU' on some platforms.
The flag itself shows four horizontal bands — red, blue, yellow, green — the world's only national flag with four equal horizontal stripes. 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 Mauritius
- 🇲🇺 Flag of the Republic of Mauritius
- 🇲🇺 Mauritian Flag
- 🇲🇺 Country Code - MU
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1F2 U+1F1FA- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:mauritius:GitHub:flag-mu:Slack:flag_mu:Discord:mu: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: Mauritius or 🧑✈️ Pilot?