🇿🇦 Flag: South Africa emoji

What flag is 🇿🇦?

🇿🇦 is the flag emoji for South Africa.

What does 🇿🇦 mean?

🇿🇦 is officially named flag: South Africa. It represents South Africa as the Unicode CLDR region identified by ZA, 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: Mayotte and 🇿🇲 Flag: Zambia.

Other meanings

Beyond a literal label for South Africa, 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 South Africa 🇿🇦

Today’s update concerns South Africa 🇿🇦

More details

Officially named flag: South Africa. Its regional-indicator sequence is U+1F1FF U+1F1E6, spelling region code ZA. It was introduced in Emoji 2.0.

Related emoji

African flag emojis

• 🇱🇸 Flag: Lesotho
• 🇿🇲 Flag: Zambia
• 🇿🇼 Flag: Zimbabwe

Visual description

On supporting platforms, 🇿🇦 is drawn as two equal-width horizontal bands of red (top) and blue separated by a central green band that splits into a horizontal Y; a black isosceles triangle is in the Y, with narrow yellow bands around it; the red and blue bands are bordered by narrow white stripes.

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 ZA 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.