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🇬🇧 United Kingdom Flag
The United Kingdom emoji, ready to copy and paste.
- Emoji
- 🇬🇧
- Unicode
- U+1F1EC U+1F1E7
- Shortcode
- :gb:
- HTML code
- 🇬🇧
- Approved in
- Unicode 6.0 (2010)
- Category
- Flags
What does the 🇬🇧 emoji mean?
The 🇬🇧 emoji is the flag of United Kingdom. People use it to represent United Kingdom: cheering for the national team, talking about travel, showing pride in their roots or listing the country in an Instagram, TikTok or WhatsApp profile.
On Windows, country flags are not drawn: they show up as the two letters GB. On iPhone, Android, Mac and on this page they appear as a flag.
Keywords: GB, flag.
How 🇬🇧 looks on each platform
Every company draws its own version of the same emoji.
Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp designs are copyrighted by each company, so we don't publish them as images. Open this page on an iPhone and the “Your device” box shows Apple's version; on a Samsung Galaxy, Samsung's.
How to type 🇬🇧 on your keyboard
| iPhone | Open the keyboard, tap the emoji button 😀 and type “united kingdom” in “Search Emoji”. |
|---|---|
| Android | On Gboard or the Samsung keyboard, tap the emoji icon and search “united kingdom”. |
| Windows | Press Windows + . (period) and type “united kingdom”. |
| Mac | Press Control + Command + Space and search “united kingdom”. |
| Discord, Slack, GitHub | Type :gb: |
🇬🇧 emoji codes
| Official Unicode name | flag: United Kingdom |
|---|---|
| Code points | U+1F1EC U+1F1E7 |
| HTML decimal | 🇬🇧 |
| HTML hex | 🇬🇧 |
| CSS | \1F1EC \1F1E7 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F1EC}\u{1F1E7} |
| Shortcode | :gb: |
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What does the 🇬🇧 emoji mean?
The 🇬🇧 emoji is the flag of United Kingdom. People use it to represent United Kingdom: cheering for the national team, talking about travel, showing pride in their roots or listing the country in an Instagram, TikTok or WhatsApp profile.
How do I copy and paste the united kingdom flag emoji?
Tap Copy emoji on this page and paste it anywhere: WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, an email or a document. You can also find it on your phone's emoji keyboard by searching “united kingdom”.
When was the 🇬🇧 emoji released?
It was approved in Unicode 6.0, in 2010. Today it works on practically every phone and computer.
Why does the United Kingdom flag show as the letters GB?
Windows does not draw country flags: it shows the two-letter country code instead. On iPhone, Android, Mac and on this page you will see the flag.