The Angola flag emoji waves in with bold drama: red on top, black on the bottom, and that unmistakable golden emblem—half a gear, a machete, and a star—front and center. You’ll see it dropped for national pride, shout-outs to Luanda, AFCON hype for the Palancas Negras, or when someone’s playlist veers into kuduro, kizomba, or semba and they need to make it known. It also pops up in Portuguese-language threads and diaspora check-ins like “AO fam, where you at?” or on travel posts flexing a Luanda skyline sunset. Meme-wise, people use it to channel “revolution energy” or “hard work mode unlocked,” thanks to the gear-and-machete combo that basically screams engineer-meets-farmer grit.
On Apple/iOS, the flag appears as a slightly waving rectangle with a vivid red top half and deep black bottom half, plus a bright yellow emblem centered: a half-cog, a diagonally angled machete, and a five-pointed star—crisp, high contrast, and instantly recognizable on a dark timeline. The look nods to history many know: industry (gear), agriculture/struggle (machete), and an ideological star—imagery tied to Angola’s independence era in the 1970s. It can be proud, supportive, or playfully intense—like posting it after fixing something with pure determination or when a debate gets spicy and someone jokes they’re about to “bring the gear and machete.” Whether it’s football watch parties, music drops, or diaspora love, this emoji lands with power and purpose.
The country of Angola is represented by this flag.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1162 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters AO Angola |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🇦🇴 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🇦🇴 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇦 🇴 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇦 🇴 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1e6, 1f1f4 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E6, U+1F1F4 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127462, 127476 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA6, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB4 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A6, F0 9F 87 B4 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 246, 360 237 207 264 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE6, 0xD83C 0xDDF4 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde6, d83cddf4 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56806, 55356 56820 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E6 0x0001F1F4 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E6, 01F1F4 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127462, 127476 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E6\U0001F1F4" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa6\xf0\x9f\x87\xb4" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE6\uD83C\uDDF4" |
