Guinea-Bissau Flag Emoji
The Guinea-Bissau flag emoji 🇬🇼 features a vertical black stripe on the hoist bearing a black star, with two horizontal bands of yellow over green on the fly.
Platform rendering status for the Guinea-Bissau flag emoji
PasteMoji has not recorded versioned, dated rendering evidence for the platforms below. The same GW 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
This is essentially the flag of the PAIGC, the liberation party founded by Amilcar Cabral that fought Portugal for over a decade and unilaterally declared independence in September 1973. Its layout and black star are borrowed from Ghana's flag, whose pan-Africanism inspired Cabral's movement. Cabral himself was assassinated eight months before the declaration he had worked towards.
✨ Did you know?
Cape Verde flew a nearly identical flag until 1992 — both countries were governed by the same liberation party, which once planned to merge them into a single state.
Unicode sequence for 🇬🇼
The Guinea-Bissau flag is not one code point. It is a valid emoji flag sequence made from two Regional Indicator Symbols associated with the region code GW. Unicode defines the sequence; each platform chooses how to draw the resulting flag.
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter G
- 🇬 · U+1F1EC
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter W
- 🇼 · U+1F1FC
Full sequence: U+1F1EC U+1F1FC. Copy the rendered flag above instead of copying one indicator by itself.