The flag: Tanzania emoji plants you right on the equator with a bold, diagonal vibe—green up top-left, blue bottom-right, sliced by a black band with crisp yellow borders. On Apple/iOS it shows as a glossy, gently waving rectangle, the thin yellow trim popping against a saturated black stripe running bottom-left to top-right—instantly recognizable even at thumbnail size. Those colors carry meaning: green for lush land, blue for the Indian Ocean and great lakes, black for the people, and yellow for mineral wealth (shout-out to tanzanite fame). It’s the go-to badge for Kilimanjaro summit flexes, Zanzibar beach posts, Serengeti safari reels, and proud diaspora check-ins.
Online, people drop it to rep Swahili culture (Jambo! Karibu!), celebrate Bongo Flava releases, or hype the Taifa Stars on match day. You’ll see it paired with 🦒🐘🗻 when the feed screams “safari-core,” or with spice and dhow pics when someone’s fallen in love with Stone Town’s alleyways. It also slides into meme territory—used playfully with “hakuna matata (for real this time)” or alongside “TZ 255” when staking national identity in a comment thread. Expect it in country collabs (🇹🇿 x 🇰🇪 energy) and travel bucket-list brags—because few flags say wanderlust and warm hospitality this loudly.
This flag represents the country of Tanzania.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1504 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 | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters TZ Tanzania |
| 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) | 1f1f9, 1f1ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F9, U+1F1FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127481, 127487 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB9, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B9, F0 9F 87 BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 271, 360 237 207 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF9, 0xD83C 0xDDFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf9, d83cddff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56825, 55356 56831 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F9 0x0001F1FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F9, 01F1FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127481, 127487 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F9\U0001F1FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb9\xf0\x9f\x87\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF9\uD83C\uDDFF" |
