🇱🇸 Flag: Lesotho emoji
The flag of Lesotho, a landlocked kingdom completely surrounded by South Africa. The flag features three horizontal stripes in blue, white, and green, with a black mokorotlo (traditional Basotho hat) in the center. Blue represents rain and the sky, white symbolizes peace, green represents prosperity, and the hat represents the indigenous people of Lesotho.
Lesotho is known for being completely enclaved by South Africa, mountainous terrain earning it the nickname "Kingdom in the Sky," traditional Basotho culture and blankets, diamond mining, water exports to South Africa, one of the few remaining African monarchies, and unique position as a high-altitude country with snow in winter.
This emoji is used to represent Lesotho in discussions about Southern African affairs, monarchy, landlocked countries, or when referencing traditional Basotho culture, mountain kingdom, water resources, diamond mining, and the unique challenges of being completely surrounded by another country.
Could also be called Lesotho flag, Mountain kingdom flag or Basotho flag emoji.
Other meanings
Mountain kingdom, enclaved country, Basotho culture, traditional monarchy, water exports
Example Usage
The mountain kingdom of 🇱🇸 is completely surrounded by South Africa
Related emoji
African flag emojis
Enclave emojis
Visual description
A rectangular flag with blue, white, and green horizontal stripes and a black traditional Basotho hat (mokorotlo) centered on the flag.
⚠️ 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.
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