Norway's cross bends into blue-on-white-on-red rather than the plainer crosses next door, and the layering says something: red and white nod to Denmark's centuries of rule, blue to Sweden, the union partner when the design was drawn up in 1821. It wasn't actually flown as the national flag until 1899, once that Swedish union finally ended.
What š³š“ means
A red flag with a navy blue horizontal stripe bordered in white, passing through the middle and dissected by a vertical stripe of the same composition in the first half from the left.
The š³š“ Flag: Norway emoji refers to the North European country of Norway or the Kingdom of Norway, a Nordic nation. This emoji is shown with its country code 'NO' on platforms that don't support flag emojis.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- š³š“ Flag of Norway
- š³š“ Flag of the Kingdom of Norway
- š³š“ Norwegian Flag
- š³š“ Country Code - NO
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags āŗ country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1F3 U+1F1F4- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:norway:GitHub:flag-no:Slack:flag_no:Discord:no: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.
ā” Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first ā š³š“ Flag: Norway or āŖ Church?