As the story goes, independence general Jose de San Martin picked red and white after watching a flock of flamingos take flight — historians file that one under legend rather than record, though the colors stuck regardless. Peru's flag runs red-white-red vertically, with the national coat of arms — a vicuna, a cinchona tree, and a cornucopia — centered on the white.
What 🇵🇪 means
A rectangular flag with three vertical stripes; white in the middle and red on the sides. The 🇵🇪 Flag: Peru emoji represents the South American country of Peru or the Republic of Peru, found to the west of the continent.
This emoji is shown as 'PE' on some platforms.
The flag itself shows vertical red-white-red bands — in legend inspired by a flock of flamingos taking flight. 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 Peru
- 🇵🇪 Flag of the Republic of Peru
- 🇵🇪 Peruvian Flag
- 🇵🇪 Country Code - PE
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1F5 U+1F1EA- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:peru:GitHub:flag-pe:Slack:flag_pe:Discord:pe: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: Peru or 🔗 Link?