The flag: Latvia emoji is that sleek maroon banner with a skinny white stripe slicing across the middle—think red velvet cake with a minimalist frosting line. On Apple/iOS it appears as a glossy, gently waving rectangle on a silver pole, deep burgundy fields above and below a noticeably narrower bright-white band; soft shading and folds make it look IRL windy. People drop 🇱🇻 to rep Latvia, Riga city pride, Baltic-state energy, or to caption moody Daugava sunsets and amber jewelry hauls.
It often pops up during hockey wins (Sarauj, Latvija!), Eurovision stanning, and the massive Song and Dance Festival vibes. Meme note: it’s not Austria—Latvia’s center stripe is thinner, so if you’re seeing “Austria but on dark mode,” that’s your hint. You’ll also see it in midsummer Jāņi posts with flower crowns, bonfires, and rye bread supremacy, or nostalgia drops about the Baltic Way.
In chats, 🇱🇻 can be proudly patriotic, autumn-core aesthetic (that maroon!), or used ironically when someone accidentally calls Riga “Eastern Europe” and gets a gentle fact-check. Flirty travelers toss it in captions like “see you in Riga 😉,” while foodies pair it with 🥔🥓 for grey peas and bacon shout-outs. Designers shout it out for that rich carmine palette, and sports fans spam it like confetti when Latvia punches above its weight on the world stage.
The country of Latvia is represented by this flag.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1170 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 LV Latvia |
| 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) | 1f1f1, 1f1fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F1, U+1F1FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127473, 127483 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB1, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B1, F0 9F 87 BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 261, 360 237 207 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF1, 0xD83C 0xDDFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf1, d83cddfb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56817, 55356 56827 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F1 0x0001F1FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F1, 01F1FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127473, 127483 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F1\U0001F1FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb1\xf0\x9f\x87\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF1\uD83C\uDDFB" |
