🇱🇾 Flag: Libya emoji

What flag is 🇱🇾?

🇱🇾 is the flag emoji for Libya.

What does 🇱🇾 mean?

🇱🇾 is officially named flag: Libya. It represents Libya as the Unicode CLDR region identified by LY, 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: Latvia and 🇲🇦 Flag: Morocco.

Other meanings

Beyond a literal label for Libya, 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 Libya 🇱🇾

Today’s update concerns Libya 🇱🇾

More details

Officially named flag: Libya. Its regional-indicator sequence is U+1F1F1 U+1F1FE, spelling region code LY. It was introduced in Emoji 2.0.

Related emoji

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Visual description

On supporting platforms, 🇱🇾 is drawn as three horizontal bands of red (top), black (double-width), and green, with a white crescent and star centered on the black stripe.

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 LY 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.