🇺🇾 Flag: Uruguay emoji

What flag is 🇺🇾?

🇺🇾 is the flag emoji for Uruguay.

What does 🇺🇾 mean?

🇺🇾 is officially named flag: Uruguay. It represents Uruguay as the Unicode CLDR region identified by UY, 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: United States and 🇺🇿 Flag: Uzbekistan.

Other meanings

Beyond a literal label for Uruguay, 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 Uruguay 🇺🇾

Today’s update concerns Uruguay 🇺🇾

More details

Officially named flag: Uruguay. Its regional-indicator sequence is U+1F1FA U+1F1FE, spelling region code UY. It was introduced in Emoji 2.0.

Related emoji

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Visual description

On supporting platforms, 🇺🇾 is drawn as nine equal horizontal stripes of white (top and bottom) alternating with blue; a white square in the upper-left corner has a yellow sun with a human face (outlined in black) known as the Sun of May, with 16 rays that alternate between triangular and wavy.

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 UY 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.