Benin Flag Emoji
The Benin flag emoji 🇧🇯 displays a vertical green stripe on the hoist side with two horizontal bands of yellow over red on the fly side.
Platform rendering status for the Benin flag emoji
PasteMoji has not recorded versioned, dated rendering evidence for the platforms below. The same BJ Unicode region sequence may appear as a flag, letter indicators, or fallback characters depending on the operating system, font, app, and version.
What the Colors Mean
Flag History
Adopted in 1959 as Dahomey prepared for independence from France, using the pan-African colors popularized by Ethiopia and Ghana. The Marxist regime that renamed the country Benin scrapped it in 1975 for a plain green flag with a red star, and the original was restored in 1990 when Marxism was abandoned.
✨ Did you know?
Benin's flag spent 15 years in exile: from 1975 to 1990 the country flew a green flag with a red star instead, and the tricolor returned only after the fall of the Marxist regime.
Unicode sequence for 🇧🇯
The Benin flag is not one code point. It is a valid emoji flag sequence made from two Regional Indicator Symbols associated with the region code BJ. Unicode defines the sequence; each platform chooses how to draw the resulting flag.
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter B
- 🇧 · U+1F1E7
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter J
- 🇯 · U+1F1EF
Full sequence: U+1F1E7 U+1F1EF. Copy the rendered flag above instead of copying one indicator by itself.