🇱🇰 Flag: Sri Lanka emoji

The flag of Sri Lanka, an island nation in the Indian Ocean known for its rich cultural heritage and natural beauty. The flag features a golden yellow field with a maroon rectangle containing a golden lion holding a sword, surrounded by four yellow bo leaves in each corner, with green and orange vertical stripes on the hoist side representing the Muslim and Tamil minorities.

Sri Lanka is known for its ancient Buddhist civilization, tea production (Ceylon tea), beautiful beaches and hill country, rich wildlife including elephants and leopards, cultural triangle with ancient cities like Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa, diverse ethnic and religious communities, spice cultivation, and remarkable recovery from civil conflict to focus on tourism and development.

This emoji is used to represent Sri Lanka in discussions about South Asian affairs, tea industry, Buddhist heritage, or when referencing Ceylon tea 🍵 Teacup without handle, ancient temples, wildlife parks, cultural diversity, and Sri Lanka's unique island culture blending Sinhalese, Tamil, and other traditions.

Could also be called Sri Lankan flag, Ceylon flag or Lion flag emoji.

Other meanings

Indian Ocean island, Ceylon tea, Buddhist heritage, ancient civilization, cultural diversity

Example Usage

The tea plantations of 🇱🇰 produce world-renowned Ceylon tea

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Visual description

A rectangular flag with a golden yellow field containing a maroon rectangle with a golden lion, four bo leaves in corners, and green and orange vertical stripes on the left side.

⚠️ 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.