🇧🇫 Burkina Faso Flag Emoji

The Burkina Faso flag emoji 🇧🇫 shows the national flag. Click the copy button above to paste it into any message, post or document.

How the Burkina Faso flag emoji looks on different platforms

Windows does not draw country flag emoji: it shows the two letters BF instead. Emoji images: Twemoji (CC BY 4.0), Noto Emoji (Apache 2.0), OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0).

What the Burkina Faso flag emoji means

The Burkina Faso flag emoji shows red and green horizontal stripes with a yellow star in the middle. People use it for film, music and national pride. Independence Day is 5 August (1960), and Ouagadougou hosts FESPACO, Africa's largest film festival.

How to type the Burkina Faso flag emoji

On iPhone, open the emoji keyboard and search for "burkina faso" or "flag", then tap the flag. On Android, use Gboard and search "burkina faso" or scroll to the Flags tab. On a Mac, press Ctrl+Cmd+Space and search the name. On Windows, press Win + . to open the picker; Windows does not draw country flags, so you will see the letters BF instead of a flag. That is normal and not a bug. Copy the emoji from this page into a chat or document, and it will show as a flag on any other device. The emoji is made of two regional indicator letters, B and F, which combine into a flag where the platform supports it.

Popular combinations

🇧🇫🎬 — FESPACO film festival
🇧🇫🌟 — the yellow star
🇧🇫⚽ — the Stallions
🇧🇫🥁 — drumming traditions

Burkina Faso flag emoji codes

Unicode	`U+1F1E7 U+1F1EB`
HTML entity	`🇧🇫`
CSS	`\1F1E7\1F1EB`
JavaScript / JSON	`\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddeb`
Python	`\U0001F1E7\U0001F1EB`
Shortcode	`:flag_bf:`
Made of	regional indicator symbol letter B + regional indicator symbol letter F
Emoji version	Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 6.0 (2010)