Two plain bands, white stacked over red, is all the Polish flag needs — no crest, no stars, nothing to explain twice. White traces to the white eagle on Poland's centuries-old coat of arms; red became the color of resistance during the 1830s uprisings against Russian rule, and the pairing has stood since 1919.
What 🇵🇱 means
A rectangular flag with a pair of horizontal stripes; white on top and red below. The 🇵🇱 Flag: Poland emoji refers to the Central European country of Poland, officially addressed as the Republic of Poland. This emoji is shown as 'PL' on some platforms.
The flag itself shows two horizontal bands, white over red — the national colors drawn from the white eagle on a red shield. 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 Poland
- 🇵🇱 Flag of the Republic of Poland
- 🇵🇱 Polish Flag
- 🇵🇱 Pole Flag
- 🇵🇱 Country Code - PL
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1F5 U+1F1F1- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:poland:GitHub:flag-pl:Slack:flag_pl:Discord:pl: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: Poland or 🆎 AB Button (blood Type)?