🇰🇵 Flag: North Korea emoji

What flag is 🇰🇵?

🇰🇵 is the flag emoji for North Korea.

What does 🇰🇵 mean?

🇰🇵 is officially named flag: North Korea. It represents North Korea as the Unicode CLDR region identified by KP, 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: St Kitts And Nevis and 🇰🇷 Flag: South Korea.

Other meanings

Beyond a literal label for North Korea, 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 North Korea 🇰🇵

Today’s update concerns North Korea 🇰🇵

More details

Officially named flag: North Korea. Its regional-indicator sequence is U+1F1F0 U+1F1F5, spelling region code KP. It was introduced in Emoji 2.0.

Related emoji

Not in any emoji groups yet.

Visual description

On supporting platforms, 🇰🇵 is drawn as three horizontal bands of blue (top), red (triple-width), and blue; the red band is edged in white; on the left side of the red band is a white disk with a red five-pointed star.

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 KP 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.