Spaniards call it la Rojigualda, "the red and gold," a nod to the two colors Charles III picked in 1785 so his navy's ships would stop getting mixed up with other countries' at sea. The coat of arms on the yellow band stacks the old kingdoms of Castile, Leon, Aragon, Navarre and Granada.
What 🇪🇸 means
A rectangular yellow flag with a horizontal red stripe at the top and bottom borders and the coat of arms printed on the yellow portion of the flag. It is the same as the flag of 🇪🇦 Ceuta & Melilla.
The 🇪🇸 Flag: Spain emoji represents the Southwest European country of Spain officially known as the Kingdom of Spain. This emoji is shown with its country code - 'ES' on platforms that don't support flag emojis.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇪🇸 Flag of Spain
- 🇪🇸 Spanish Flag
- 🇪🇸 Flag of the Kingdom of Spain
- 🇪🇸 Country Code - ES
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1EA U+1F1F8- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:es::flag-es:Slack:flag_es: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: Spain or ➿ Double Curly Loop?