The flag: Mauritania emoji beams in Saharan swagger—dunes, mint tea steam, and an Atlantic breeze from Nouakchott all rolled into one little banner. People drop it for Mauritanian pride, AFCON watch parties, desert‑travel flexes, and to tag Sahel/Maghreb convos. It’s also a tidy shorthand for “Sahara‑core” aesthetics and camel‑caravan daydreams.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll see a deep emerald‑green field with a bold gold crescent under a five‑pointed star in the center, plus slim red bands at the top and bottom (added in the 2017 redesign). The flag waves on a metallic silver pole with gentle shading and a slight 3D flutter—like it just stepped out of a wind‑machine photoshoot. Those red trims and the upward‑facing crescent make it instantly distinct from other crescent flags.
Online, it shows up in Ramadan/Eid posts, paired with moon‑and‑star vibes, and in memes as the literal “green flag” when someone’s showing A+ qualities. You’ll also spot it during Mauritania news, iron‑ore train adventure threads, or seafood‑and‑sunset pics from Nouadhibou and Banc d’Arguin. Pro tip: don’t confuse it with Pakistan (green + white) or Turkey (all red)—Mauritania is green with gold and those signature red rails. Sarcastic mode: people sometimes drop it after surviving a sandstorm of emails—“made it through, Mauritania mode activated.”
The country of Mauritania is represented by this emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1697 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 MR Mauritania |
| 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) | 1f1f2, 1f1f7 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F2, U+1F1F7 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127474, 127479 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB2, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB7 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B2, F0 9F 87 B7 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 262, 360 237 207 267 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF2, 0xD83C 0xDDF7 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf2, d83cddf7 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56818, 55356 56823 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F2 0x0001F1F7 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F2, 01F1F7 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127474, 127479 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F2\U0001F1F7" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb2\xf0\x9f\x87\xb7" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF2\uD83C\uDDF7" |
