🇬🇼 Flag: Guinea-Bissau emoji

The flag of Guinea-Bissau, a West African country known for its complex political history and cashew production. The flag features three horizontal stripes with a red vertical stripe on the hoist side, a yellow middle stripe, and green bottom stripe, plus a black five-pointed star on the red stripe. Red represents the blood shed for independence, yellow symbolizes the sun and savanna, green represents hope and forests, and the black star represents African unity.

Guinea-Bissau is known for cashew nut production (one of the world's largest producers), Portuguese colonial heritage, political instability since independence, diverse ethnic groups, traditional music and dance, mangrove coastlines, and serving as a transit point in international drug trafficking. The country has faced significant governance challenges.

This emoji is used to represent Guinea-Bissau in discussions about West African affairs, cashew production, political instability, or when referencing Portuguese-speaking Africa, traditional cultures, coastal ecosystems, and the challenges of post-colonial state building in West Africa.

Could also be called Guinea-Bissau flag, West African flag or Portuguese African flag emoji.

Other meanings

West Africa, cashew production, political instability, Portuguese heritage, African unity

Example Usage

Cashew production is vital to the economy of 🇬🇼

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Visual description

A rectangular flag with a red vertical stripe on the left containing a black star, and yellow and green horizontal stripes on the right.

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