🇰🇼 Flag: Kuwait emoji

The flag of Kuwait, a wealthy oil-rich country in the Arabian Peninsula. The flag features three horizontal stripes in green, white, and red, with a black trapezoid on the hoist side. Green represents the fertile land, white symbolizes purity, red represents the blood of enemies, and black represents the defeats of enemies. These are traditional Pan-Arab colors.

Kuwait is known for its vast oil reserves making it one of the world's wealthiest countries per capita, modern architecture and urban development, strategic location in the Persian Gulf, 1990 Iraqi invasion and Gulf War liberation, significant expatriate population, traditional dhow sailing heritage, and role as a regional financial and trade center.

This emoji is used to represent Kuwait in discussions about Middle Eastern affairs, oil industry, Gulf States, or when referencing oil wealth, Gulf War history, modern urban development, Persian Gulf geopolitics, and Kuwait's role as a major oil producer and regional commercial hub.

Could also be called Kuwaiti flag, Kuwait country flag or Gulf state flag emoji.

Other meanings

Oil wealth, Persian Gulf, Gulf War, modern architecture, Arab state

Example Usage

The oil wealth of 🇰🇼 has funded major urban development

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Visual description

A rectangular flag with green, white, and red horizontal stripes and a black trapezoid extending from the left side toward the center.

⚠️ 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.