The flag: Western Sahara emoji waves the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic’s colors—pan‑Arab black, white, and green stripes with a bold red triangle at the hoist, plus a red crescent and star centered on the white band. It’s commonly used to rep Western Sahara, Sahrawi identity, independence discussions, and Maghreb geography chat; you’ll also see it in solidarity posts or map-nerd threads. Online, it sometimes gets confused with the Palestinian flag—same vibe of colors—but the giveaway here is that crescent-and-star right in the middle. Expect it in GeoGuessr victory laps, “name that flag” flexes, or desert-aesthetic captions next to camels, dunes, and heat‑wave jokes.
On Apple/iOS, the design appears as a crisp, gently waving rectangle: top stripe black, middle white (with a sharp red crescent hugging a five‑pointed red star), bottom green, and that saturated red triangle pointing inward from the left. The shading gives it a fabric fold look, with clean geometry and high-contrast reds that pop against the monochrome band. People drop it in timelines to signal political awareness, spark conversation, or add a bit of Saharan swagger to travel posts—think “Sahara-level drama” with a wink. If a platform lacks support, you might see a fallback or the region code instead, but on modern systems the iconic red triangle and crescent-star combo is the instant tell.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1640 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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| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Flag of Western Sahara Western Sahara |
| 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) | 1f1ea, 1f1ed |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EA, U+1F1ED |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127466, 127469 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAA, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AA, F0 9F 87 AD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 252, 360 237 207 255 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEA, 0xD83C 0xDDED |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddea, d83cdded |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56810, 55356 56813 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EA 0x0001F1ED |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EA, 01F1ED |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127466, 127469 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EA\U0001F1ED" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xaa\xf0\x9f\x87\xad" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEA\uD83C\uDDED" |
