🇿🇼 Flag: Zimbabwe emoji

What flag is 🇿🇼?

🇿🇼 is the flag emoji for Zimbabwe.

What does 🇿🇼 mean?

🇿🇼 is officially named flag: Zimbabwe. It represents Zimbabwe as the Unicode CLDR region identified by ZW, 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. The current flag was adopted at independence on 18 April 1980 and includes the Zimbabwe Bird above a red star. Related flag pages include 🇿🇲 Flag: Zambia and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Flag: England.

Other meanings

Beyond a literal label for Zimbabwe, 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 Zimbabwe 🇿🇼

Today’s update concerns Zimbabwe 🇿🇼

More details

Officially named flag: Zimbabwe. Its regional-indicator sequence is U+1F1FF U+1F1FC, spelling region code ZW. It was introduced in Emoji 2.0.

Related emoji

African flag emojis

• 🇱🇸 Flag: Lesotho
• 🇿🇦 Flag: South Africa
• 🇿🇲 Flag: Zambia

Visual description

On supporting platforms, 🇿🇼 is drawn as seven equal horizontal bands of green (top), yellow, red, black, red, yellow, and green, with a white isosceles triangle edged in black based on the left side; in the middle of the triangle, a yellow bird is on top of a five-pointed red 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 ZW 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.