Botswana Flag Emoji
The Botswana flag emoji 🇧🇼 shows a light blue field with a horizontal black stripe edged by white stripes running across the center.
Platform rendering status for the Botswana flag emoji
PasteMoji has not recorded versioned, dated rendering evidence for the platforms below. The same BW 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
Designed for independence in 1966 as a pointed rejection of two models: it avoided pan-African colors and party banners, and its black-and-white stripes proclaimed racial harmony while neighboring South Africa was under apartheid. The rain-blue field reflects the national preoccupation with water in the Kalahari.
✨ Did you know?
The blue stands for 'pula' — rain — a word so central to Botswana that it is the national motto, a common greeting, and the name of the currency.
Unicode sequence for 🇧🇼
The Botswana flag is not one code point. It is a valid emoji flag sequence made from two Regional Indicator Symbols associated with the region code BW. Unicode defines the sequence; each platform chooses how to draw the resulting flag.
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter B
- 🇧 · U+1F1E7
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter W
- 🇼 · U+1F1FC
Full sequence: U+1F1E7 U+1F1FC. Copy the rendered flag above instead of copying one indicator by itself.