🇱🇻 Flag: Latvia emoji

The flag of Latvia, a Baltic country with rich cultural traditions and natural beauty. The flag features a distinctive design with a white horizontal stripe in the middle flanked by two maroon (dark red) stripes. The maroon represents the readiness of Latvians to give their blood for freedom, while white symbolizes the right of Latvians to be free.

Latvia is known for its Art Nouveau architecture in Riga, Baltic Sea coastline, dense forests covering half the country, traditional song and dance festivals, amber jewelry and crafts, successful post-Soviet transition, distinctive Latvian language, and cultural resilience through centuries of foreign occupation while maintaining strong Baltic identity.

This emoji is used to represent Latvia in discussions about Baltic states, European affairs, cultural preservation, or when referencing Latvian architecture, Baltic amber, traditional festivals, forest landscapes, and the country's remarkable cultural survival and democratic development.

Could also be called Latvian flag, Latvia country flag or Baltic flag emoji.

Other meanings

Baltic states, Art Nouveau architecture, amber crafts, cultural festivals, forest landscapes

Example Usage

The Art Nouveau architecture of 🇱🇻 Riga is remarkably preserved

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Visual description

A rectangular flag with two maroon horizontal stripes (top and bottom) and a white horizontal stripe in the middle, with the white stripe being narrower than the maroon ones.

⚠️ 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.