🇸🇴 Somalia Flag Emoji

The Somalia flag emoji 🇸🇴 is the standard flag for Somalia, supported on iPhone, Android, Mac and the web. Tap the big emoji above to copy it, then paste it into any message or document.

How the Somalia flag emoji looks on different platforms

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

What the Somalia flag emoji means

The Somalia flag emoji is a light blue field with a single white five-pointed star in the center. The five points stand for the Somali-inhabited regions of the Horn of Africa. Somalis at home and abroad use it, along with fans of the national football team. Posts appear on 1 July, Republic Day, and on 26 June, the day former British Somaliland became independent in 1960.

How to type the Somalia flag emoji

On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “Somalia” or “flag”. On a Mac, press Ctrl+Cmd+Space and type the same word. On Windows 10 and 11, press Win + . and search there, but Windows shows the letters SO instead of a flag, because Microsoft's emoji font has no country flags. The emoji is built from two regional indicator letters, S and O, which supported platforms combine into one flag. If you see the letters on another device, the app or font does not support flags.

Popular combinations

🇸🇴⚽ — The national football team
🇸🇴🌊 — Africa's longest mainland coastline
🇸🇴🐪 — Camels, central to Somali pastoral life
🇸🇴🤝 — Diaspora community and remittance support

Somalia flag emoji codes

Unicode	`U+1F1F8 U+1F1F4`
HTML entity	`🇸🇴`
CSS	`\1F1F8\1F1F4`
JavaScript / JSON	`\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf4`
Python	`\U0001F1F8\U0001F1F4`
Shortcode	`:flag_so:`
Made of	regional indicator symbol letter S + regional indicator symbol letter O
Emoji version	Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 6.0 (2010)