Flag Emoji Copy and Paste - 250+ Country Flag Emojis
Copy and paste country flag emojis for every nation. Click any flag to copy it instantly. Works on Instagram, TikTok, Discord, and all platforms.
Flags (255)
Total emojis: 255
How to Copy Flags Emojis
- Browse the flags emojis above
- Click any emoji to instantly copy it to your clipboard
- Paste with Ctrl+V (Windows) or Cmd+V (Mac) anywhere you want
These emojis work on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter/X, Discord, Facebook, WhatsApp, and most other platforms.
About Flag Emojis
Flag emojis work differently from every other emoji category. There's no single code point for "UK flag" or "US flag" — instead, each flag is built from a pair of Regional Indicator Symbol letters (U+1F1E6–U+1F1FF, encoding A–Z). The two-letter ISO 3166-1 country code is what tells the system which flag to draw: 🇬🇧 is the Regional Indicators for G + B, 🇺🇸 is U + S, 🇯🇵 is J + P. This means new flags don't need new Unicode points — if a country exists in ISO 3166, its flag emoji exists. Subdivision flags like 🏴 (Scotland) and 🏴 (England) use a different mechanism: a black flag plus tag sequence characters encoding the subdivision code. Over 250 flags are supported across modern platforms.
Most popular flag emojis
- 🇺🇸 United States — consistently the most-used flag emoji on Twitter/X.
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom — high volume around football tournaments and royal events.
- 🇯🇵 Japan and 🇰🇷 South Korea — anime, K-pop and travel-content staples.
- 🇫🇷 France, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇪🇸 Spain — Eurovision and football season favourites.
- 🇧🇷 Brazil — one of the most-used flags worldwide thanks to Brazilian Twitter and Instagram activity.
- 🏳️🌈 Rainbow Flag and 🏳️⚧️ Transgender Flag — LGBTQ+ identity markers in bios and Pride Month content.
- 🏴☠️ Pirate Flag — ironic and gaming uses.
Where people use them
Flags do enormous work in football, Olympics and Eurovision tweets — entire weeks of trending hashtags depend on them. Travel-content creators on Instagram pair flags with destination posts. Esports rosters use flags to indicate player nationality. Crypto and global-news Twitter use flags as shorthand for regulatory news ("🇺🇸 SEC says...").
Platform rendering differences
This is the category with the largest cross-platform problem. Windows does not render country flags as flags — instead, it shows the two-letter country code (GB, US, JP). This was a deliberate Microsoft decision dating back to Windows 8, partly to avoid taking sides on disputed-territory flags like 🇹🇼 (Taiwan). Apple, Google, Samsung, and modern browsers all render proper flags. On Chrome for Windows you'll see country codes; on Firefox you'll see flags. The 🏴 (Scotland), 🏴 (Wales) and 🏴 (England) subdivision flags are even more inconsistent — many platforms only render them after Unicode 11 (2018).
If you need country-flag symbols that always render the same everywhere, you're out of luck — unlike hearts and arrows, flags have no plain-Unicode fallback. The closest options are ASCII letter pairs or country abbreviations.