The flag: Botswana emoji reps the serene, stylish blue banner with a bold black stripe edged in white—basically the minimalist catwalk model of world flags. People drop it to show Botswanan pride, shout out Gaborone, cheer on the national football team (the Zebras), or to pair with water emojis when they say “Pula!”—the national motto meaning “rain,” good fortune, and the local currency all in one. It also pops up in travel threads about the Okavango Delta, wildlife trips, diamond industry hot takes, and any post that’s rocking a crisp black–white–baby-blue aesthetic fit check.
On Apple devices, it appears as a gently waving rectangle with soft fabric shading: a light sky-blue field, one clean horizontal black band across the center, precisely edged by thin white lines—instantly recognizable as “zebra stripes in the sky.” That sleek contrast makes it meme-friendly for captions like “mood: calm but bold,” used both sincerely and ironically. You’ll see it in celebratory posts, diaspora shout-outs, weather jokes during a dry spell, or as a flex about Botswana’s stable vibes and jaw-dropping safaris. Bonus culture points: the zebra is the national animal, the blue nods to life-giving rain, and the flag dates to independence in 1966—simple, modern, and memeable without even trying.
The country of Botswana is represented by this emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1118 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 BW Botswana |
| 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) | 1f1e7, 1f1fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E7, U+1F1FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127463, 127484 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A7, F0 9F 87 BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 247, 360 237 207 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE7, 0xD83C 0xDDFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde7, d83cddfc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56807, 55356 56828 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E7 0x0001F1FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E7, 01F1FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127463, 127484 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E7\U0001F1FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa7\xf0\x9f\x87\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE7\uD83C\uDDFC" |
