Fifteen-year-old Susan Karike designed Papua New Guinea's flag, sketching it on a torn page from her exercise book during a 1971 nationwide competition. Her design splits the flag diagonally into black and red, with the Southern Cross in white stars on one half and a golden raggiana bird-of-paradise, the national bird, silhouetted on the other. It became official that same year, ahead of 1975 independence.
What ðĩðŽ means
A rectangular flag with a top-left and bottom-right diagonal division. The flag is red to the right of this division, along with a yellow print of a flying Raggiana-bird-of-paradise.
The bottom or left partition of the diagonal is printed in black, with four equal-sized five-pointed stars and a smaller one among them, all in white.
The ðĩðŽ Flag: Papua New Guinea emoji refers to the Independent State of Papua New Guinea; an Oceanian nation and the third largest island country in the world.
This emoji is shown as 'PG' on some platforms.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- ðĩðŽ Flag of Papua New Guinea
- ðĩðŽ Flag of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea
- ðĩðŽ Papua New Guinean Flag
- ðĩðŽ Country Code - PG
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags âš country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1F5 U+1F1EC- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:papua_new_guinea:GitHub:flag-pg:Slack:flag_pg:Discord:pg: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 â ðĩðŽ Flag: Papua New Guinea or ðŠĪ Mouse Trap?