White on top, green in the middle, red on the bottom—this tidy tricolor plants you squarely in Bulgaria. On Apple/iOS it shows up as a clean, slightly rippled rectangle with crisp white, deep forest green, and vivid red, no coat of arms and no pole—just sleek fabric shading that looks ready to flutter over the Balkans. People drop it to rep hometown pride, tag travel photos from Sofia to Varna, or to flex over banitsa, shopska salad, and that famously tangy Bulgarian yogurt (yes, the OG bacterial starter brag). It also pops up with March 1 Martenitsa posts, Eurovision stanning, and during football, volleyball, or weightlifting hype—Stoichkov-era nostalgia included.
Online, it doubles as a wink for “we’re going Cyrillic now,” or a playful clapback when someone calls every sour milk “Greek yogurt.” Meme lords use it for Balkan in-jokes and summer-on-the-Black-Sea thirst traps. It sometimes gets confused with Hungary’s or Iran’s flag in tiny thumbnails; remember: Bulgaria goes white–green–red from top to bottom, simple and emblem-free. Historically a 19th‑century tricolor, it’s a go-to on Liberation Day (March 3) and any time you want your feed to smell faintly of roses from the Valley of Roses and a dash of yogurt culture.
This emoji represents the country of Bulgaria.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1165 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 BG Bulgaria |
| 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, 1f1ec |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E7, U+1F1EC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127463, 127468 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A7, F0 9F 87 AC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 247, 360 237 207 254 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE7, 0xD83C 0xDDEC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde7, d83cddec |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56807, 55356 56812 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E7 0x0001F1EC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E7, 01F1EC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127463, 127468 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E7\U0001F1EC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa7\xf0\x9f\x87\xac" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE7\uD83C\uDDEC" |
