The flag: Faroe Islands emoji waves in with crisp Nordic minimalism: a white field sporting a bold red cross outlined in deep blue, known locally as Merkið (“the banner”). On Apple/iOS it’s shown as a gently rippling rectangle on a silver flagpole, left-facing, with clean, saturated colors and that unmistakable Nordic cross offset toward the hoist. If you’ve ever mixed it up with Iceland or Norway at first glance, the blue-edged red cross on white is your cheat code for Faroes.
Online, this emoji pops up as a tiny travel flex for windswept cliffs, puffins, turf-roof cottages, and “there are more sheep than people” energy. It’s used for Faroese pride, North Atlantic vibes, and a surprisingly clutch underdog spirit—think small nation, big football upsets, playlist queued with Eivør. You’ll see it in bios next to ocean waves and knit sweater pics, or dropped ironically when someone says they’re “moving somewhere remote” to escape notifications. It also doubles as a friendly correction when someone tags Iceland by mistake: cue this flag and a gentle “not that one.”
Culturally, the Faroes sit in the Danish realm with strong Viking roots and a sea-steeped identity, and the flag’s Nordic cross telegraphs that heritage instantly. In meme-speak, it’s the emoji for dramatic weather changes, salmon supremacy, and coastal panoramas that look AI-generated but aren’t—just the Faroes doing Faroes.
This flag represents the country of Faroe Islands.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1749 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 FO Faroe Islands |
| 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) | 1f1eb, 1f1f4 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EB, U+1F1F4 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127467, 127476 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAB, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB4 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AB, F0 9F 87 B4 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 253, 360 237 207 264 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEB, 0xD83C 0xDDF4 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddeb, d83cddf4 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56811, 55356 56820 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EB 0x0001F1F4 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EB, 01F1F4 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127467, 127476 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EB\U0001F1F4" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xab\xf0\x9f\x87\xb4" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEB\uD83C\uDDF4" |
