The Uganda flag emoji pops with six bold horizontal stripes—black, yellow, red, then repeat—framed around a white disc carrying the elegant grey crowned crane. On Apple/iOS, it’s a clean, slightly waving rectangle: the crane faces left, one leg raised like it’s mid–ballet pose, with a golden crest and a tiny splash of red on the cheek—instantly recognizable even at small sizes. Those colors aren’t random: black for the people, yellow for sunshine, red for brotherhood, so the palette feels warm and proudly upbeat. Visually, the bright yellow band and the poised crane make it easy to spot in a busy timeline.
People drop this flag to rep Kampala trips, gorilla trekking brag posts from Bwindi, and Nile selfies from Jinja, or to cheer the Uganda Cranes and distance-running GOATs like Joshua Cheptegei. It’s big for Independence Day (October 9), diaspora pride in bios, and “Pearl of Africa” caption energy. Expect playful food flexes too—pair it with an egg and chapati to signal the beloved Ugandan rolex (not the watch, but yes, the pun writes itself). You’ll also see it reclaiming the narrative from that old “do you know the way” meme, used with a wink but grounded in real culture, music, and joy. In DMs and comments, it can be celebratory, flirty-travelish (“ticket booked, see you soon 🇺🇬”), or a flag-drop mic drop under East African bops and dance challenges.
This flag represents the country of Uganda.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1376 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 UG Uganda |
| 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) | 1f1fa, 1f1ec |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1FA, U+1F1EC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127482, 127468 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBA, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 BA, F0 9F 87 AC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 272, 360 237 207 254 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDFA, 0xD83C 0xDDEC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddfa, d83cddec |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56826, 55356 56812 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1FA 0x0001F1EC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1FA, 01F1EC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127482, 127468 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1FA\U0001F1EC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xba\xf0\x9f\x87\xac" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDEC" |
