This is the oldest tricolor still flying anywhere, though it didn't start out red: the top band was originally orange, for the House of Orange-Nassau, before dye and politics gradually turned it red sometime in the 1600s. Dutch football fans still switch back to orange gear whenever their team takes the field.
What 🇳🇱 means
A horizontal triband of crimson red, white, and navy blue, flowing from the top to the bottom band. The 🇳🇱 Flag: Netherlands emoji refers to the Netherlands, a West European country that also shares a Caribbean border.
This emoji is shown as 'NL' on some platforms.
The flag itself shows horizontal red, white, and blue — the world's oldest tricolore, in continuous use since the 17th century. 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 Netherlands
- 🇳🇱 Flag of Holland
- 🇳🇱 Dutch Flag
- 🇳🇱 Country Code - NL
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1F3 U+1F1F1- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:netherlands:GitHub:flag-nl:Slack:flag_nl:Discord:nl: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: Netherlands or 🕕 Six O’clock?