🇪🇬 Flag: Egypt emoji

What flag is 🇪🇬?

🇪🇬 is the flag emoji for Egypt.

What does 🇪🇬 mean?

🇪🇬 is officially named flag: Egypt. It represents Egypt as the Unicode CLDR region identified by EG, and it can mark the place, its people or teams, travel, location, public events, news, or regional identity.

The sequence can accompany the written place name or stand alone in a location-aware message. Related flag pages include 🇪🇪 Flag: Estonia and 🇪🇭 Flag: Western Sahara.

Other meanings

Beyond a literal label for Egypt, it can indicate a personal or family connection, a route or destination, heritage, regional sport, public celebrations, diplomacy, or current affairs. A flag symbol alone does not establish citizenship, residence, or political endorsement.

Example Usage

The itinerary includes Egypt 🇪🇬

Today’s update concerns Egypt 🇪🇬

More details

Officially named flag: Egypt. Its regional-indicator sequence is U+1F1EA U+1F1EC, spelling region code EG. It was introduced in Emoji 2.0.

Related emoji

Ancient Egypt emojis

• 👑️ Crown
• 🏜️ Desert
• 🐈️ Cat
• ⚱️ Funeral urn

Visual description

On supporting platforms, 🇪🇬 is drawn as three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and black; centered in the white band is the national emblem, a gold Eagle of Saladin; it faces the left side, with a shield on its chest, above a scroll with the country's name in Arabic.

Emoji vendors may simplify coats of arms, seals, text, stars, or other fine details and can vary proportions, shading, wave effects, and corners. Unsupported systems may show the separate regional letters EG instead.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.

Flag emojis are often drawn as a "wavy rectangle" with flat vertical lines and curved horizontal lines representing a flag in the wind. Some emoji sets use standard rectangles, rectangles with curved corners or circles.