Burkina Faso Flag Emoji
The Burkina Faso flag emoji 🇧🇫 features two equal horizontal bands of red over green with a yellow five-pointed star in the center.
Platform rendering status for the Burkina Faso flag emoji
PasteMoji has not recorded versioned, dated rendering evidence for the platforms below. The same BF 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
Revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara introduced the flag on 4 August 1984, the same day he renamed Upper Volta as Burkina Faso, 'land of upright people'. It replaced a black-white-red tricolor whose stripes had represented the Black, White and Red Volta rivers, swapping colonial-era geography for pan-African colors.
✨ Did you know?
The flag and the country's name were born on the same day — 4 August 1984 — when Sankara scrapped both the name Upper Volta and its river-themed flag in one revolutionary stroke.
Unicode sequence for 🇧🇫
The Burkina Faso flag is not one code point. It is a valid emoji flag sequence made from two Regional Indicator Symbols associated with the region code BF. Unicode defines the sequence; each platform chooses how to draw the resulting flag.
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter B
- 🇧 · U+1F1E7
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter F
- 🇫 · U+1F1EB
Full sequence: U+1F1E7 U+1F1EB. Copy the rendered flag above instead of copying one indicator by itself.