The flag: Caribbean Netherlands emoji plants the Dutch tricolor firmly in tropical sands—used for Bonaire, Sint Eustatius (Statia), and Saba, a.k.a. the BES islands. On Apple/iOS, it shows the classic Netherlands red–white–blue horizontal stripes waving on a slim silver flagpole; since there’s no single official flag for all three islands together, platforms default to the parent-country look. You’ll spot it under posts about Bonaire’s unreal diving, Saba’s sky-high Mount Scenery hikes (and that famously tiny runway), or Statia history deep-dives—usually flanked by waves, turtles, and a sun for maximum vacay flex.
In texts, it telegraphs “Dutch Caribbean vibes,” “island time unlocked,” or a soft-launch of your out‑of‑office. It’s also dropped ironically when someone’s dreaming of turquoise water but is actually buried in spreadsheets, or used to clarify “Nope, not Aruba/Curaçao—different Dutch Caribbean squad.” Expect Koningsdag-orange fits, Papiamentu “dushi,” and “moved to paradise, still does Dutch paperwork” memes in the comments. Bonus trivia for the geo-nerds: the islands became special municipalities in 2010 after the Netherlands Antilles dissolved—hence the tricolor and the occasional flag-ID confusion.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1366 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: | Flag of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba Caribbean Netherlands |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - 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) | 1f1e7, 1f1f6 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E7, U+1F1F6 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127463, 127478 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB6 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A7, F0 9F 87 B6 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 247, 360 237 207 266 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE7, 0xD83C 0xDDF6 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde7, d83cddf6 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56807, 55356 56822 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E7 0x0001F1F6 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E7, 01F1F6 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127463, 127478 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E7\U0001F1F6" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa7\xf0\x9f\x87\xb6" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE7\uD83C\uDDF6" |
