🇷🇪 Réunion flag emoji
The Réunion flag emoji 🇷🇪 is the two-letter flag sequence for RE. Tap the copy button to paste it anywhere.
How the Réunion flag emoji looks on different platforms
Windows does not draw country flag emoji: it shows the two letters RE instead. Emoji images: Twemoji (CC BY 4.0), Noto Emoji (Apache 2.0), OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0).
What the Réunion flag emoji means
Réunion is a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. The official flag is the French tricolour, and many platforms draw the emoji close to it. The island is known for the Piton de la Fournaise volcano and the Cirque de Cilaos. December 20 is a public holiday marking the abolition of slavery in 1848. Surfers, hikers and people from the island use the emoji.
Close to 900,000 people live there, so it is used a little more than other territory flags, but still rarely compared with country flags.
How to type the Réunion flag emoji
On iPhone and Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for "Réunion" or "flag". On a Mac, press Ctrl+Cmd+Space and search the same way. On Windows, press Win + . to open the emoji panel. Note that Windows shows the two letters RE instead of a flag, because it does not include flag artwork. The emoji is made of two regional indicator symbols, R and E, which platforms combine into one flag.
Popular combinations
- 🇷🇪🌋 for Piton de la Fournaise
- 🇷🇪🥾 for hiking in the cirques
- 🇷🇪🇫🇷 for a French department
- 🇷🇪🏝️ for an Indian Ocean trip
Réunion flag emoji codes
| Unicode | U+1F1F7 U+1F1EA |
|---|---|
| HTML entity | 🇷🇪 |
| CSS | \1F1F7\1F1EA |
| JavaScript / JSON | \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddea |
| Python | \U0001F1F7\U0001F1EA |
| Shortcode | :flag_re: |
| Made of | regional indicator symbol letter R + regional indicator symbol letter E |
| Emoji version | Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 6.0 (2010) |
Réunion flag emoji FAQ
Why does the Réunion flag emoji show as letters?
Windows does not draw country flag emojis, so 🇷🇪 appears as the letters RE. iPhone, Android, macOS and most browsers on those systems show the flag.
How do I get the Réunion flag emoji on Windows?
Copy it from this page and paste it into a chat or document. It will display as RE in apps that use Windows fonts, but other people on iPhone or Android will see the flag. Some apps, such as Discord, draw their own flag images.
Why does Réunion look like the French flag?
Because it is part of France and the tricolour is its official flag. The code RE is what makes 🇷🇪 a separate emoji from 🇫🇷.