The flag: Afghanistan emoji hoists a bold black–red–green tricolor with a tiny white emblem centered on the red band. On Apple/iOS it appears as a glossy, slightly waving rectangle—no pole—clean stripes and a crisp mini-crest that looks like a mosque within a wreath if you squint. Those colors pop in dark mode and the white seal sits like a bright pin in the middle. One glance and you know it's Afghanistan.
People drop it to rep Afghan identity and diaspora pride, cheer the national cricket team, or caption food pics from an Afghan kebab house and pomegranate-loaded spreads. It shows up in solidarity posts, cultural festival flyers, Eid greetings, and “finally landed in Kabul” travel updates. In bios it often rides next to other flags, a 📍, or a 🤍 to signal roots and community. Emotionally it carries resilience, remembrance, and big-weeks-in-the-news energy.
Online, you'll also see it used playfully with AFG/AF abbreviations, or tossed into World Cup live-tweets for instant hype. Some creators pair it with 🪁, 🐎, and 🫚 to nod to kites, buzkashi, and saffron—cheeky but affectionate. Note: most platforms (including Apple) still render the former tricolor with the central emblem, so the emoji may not match current political flags, which can spark comment-section debates. Regardless, the visual instantly reads “Afghanistan” across timelines and group chats.
The country of Afghanistan is represented by this emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 960 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters AF Afghanistan |
| 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, 1f1eb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E6, U+1F1EB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127462, 127467 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA6, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A6, F0 9F 87 AB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 246, 360 237 207 253 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE6, 0xD83C 0xDDEB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde6, d83cddeb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56806, 55356 56811 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E6 0x0001F1EB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E6, 01F1EB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127462, 127467 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E6\U0001F1EB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa6\xf0\x9f\x87\xab" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE6\uD83C\uDDEB" |
