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๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia & Herzegovina flag emoji
The Bosnia & Herzegovina flag emoji ๐ง๐ฆ shows the national flag of Bosnia & Herzegovina on iPhone, Android and Mac. Tap the copy button above to paste it into any message or post.
How the Bosnia & Herzegovina flag emoji looks on different platforms
Windows does not draw country flag emoji: it shows the two letters BA instead. Emoji images: Twemoji (CC BY 4.0), Noto Emoji (Apache 2.0), OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0).
What the Bosnia & Herzegovina flag emoji means
The emoji shows the flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina: a blue field with a yellow triangle and a diagonal row of white stars. It appears on Statehood Day, 25 November, on Independence Day, 1 March, and around football matches, travel photos of Sarajevo and the Mostar bridge.
How to type the Bosnia & Herzegovina flag emoji
On iPhone and Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for "Bosnia" or "flag" to find ๐ง๐ฆ. On a Mac, press Ctrl+Cmd+Space and type the same word. On Windows, press Win + . to open the emoji panel, but Windows does not draw flag emojis, so you will see the letters BA instead of a flag. The emoji is made of two regional indicator letters, B and A, which phones and Macs combine into one flag.
Popular combinations
- ๐ง๐ฆโฝ โ The national football team
- ๐ง๐ฆ๐ โ Mostar's Old Bridge
- ๐ง๐ฆโ โ Bosnian coffee
- ๐ง๐ฆ๐๏ธ โ Mountains and rivers
Bosnia & Herzegovina flag emoji codes
| Unicode | U+1F1E7 U+1F1E6 |
|---|---|
| HTML entity | 🇧🇦 |
| CSS | \1F1E7\1F1E6 |
| JavaScript / JSON | \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde6 |
| Python | \U0001F1E7\U0001F1E6 |
| Shortcode | :flag_ba: |
| Made of | regional indicator symbol letter B + regional indicator symbol letter A |
| Emoji version | Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 6.0 (2010) |
Bosnia & Herzegovina flag emoji FAQ
Why does the Bosnia & Herzegovina flag emoji show as BA on my PC?
Windows does not include flag graphics in its emoji font. Your device sees the two letters B and A and shows them as text. The same emoji displays as a flag on iPhone, Android, Mac and most websites.
How do I get the Bosnia & Herzegovina flag emoji on Windows?
Copy ๐ง๐ฆ from this page and paste it into an app that draws its own emoji, such as a browser version of Slack, Discord or X. In Notepad and some Windows apps it will still look like BA. Phones and Macs show it as a flag.
What other emojis look like the Bosnia & Herzegovina flag?
๐ฝ๐ฐ Kosovo also has a blue flag with stars and a yellow element, but its yellow is the shape of the country, not a triangle.
When was the Bosnia and Herzegovina flag adopted?
The current flag has been in use since 1998, when UN High Representative Carlos Westendorp introduced it after parliament could not agree on a design. It is a blue field with a yellow triangle and a diagonal line of white stars, which is what the ๐ง๐ฆ emoji shows.
What did the old Bosnian flag look like?
From 20 May 1992 to 1998 the country used a white flag with a blue shield bearing six golden lilies, taken from the arms of the Kotromaniฤ dynasty. The ๐ง๐ฆ emoji does not show this old flag, only the current one.