An armillary sphere, an old navigator's tool, sits on the seam between green and red, a nod to Portugal's Age of Discovery voyages and added when the flag was adopted in 1911 after the monarchy fell. Red is said to honor those who died in that revolution; green looks back to Henry the Navigator.
What 🇵🇹 means
A rectangular flag with a vertical division a little to the left; with the first half being green and the second, red. At the center of the dividing line is the coat of arms (just the center without the branches).
The 🇵🇹 Flag: Portugal emoji represents the southwest European country of Portugal, officially addressed as the Portuguese Republic. This emoji is shown as 'PT' on platforms that don't support flag emojis.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇵🇹 Flag of Portugal
- 🇵🇹 Flag of the Portuguese Republic
- 🇵🇹 Portuguese Flag
- 🇵🇹 Country Code - PT
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1F5 U+1F1F9- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:portugal:GitHub:flag-pt:Slack:flag_pt:Discord:pt: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: Portugal or 👽 Alien?