🇧🇼 Flag: Botswana is an emoji from the Flags category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F1E7 U+1F1FC and it was released in Emoji 2.0 (2015). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🇧🇼 Flag: Botswana mean?
The 🇧🇼 Flag: Botswana emoji shows the national flag of Botswana. It is built from two regional indicator letters, BW (the ISO country code), which phones and apps combine into a flag. It is used to represent Botswana in conversations about travel, sport, national holidays, culture and pride. Windows does not display country flags as images — it shows the two letters instead — but the flag appears correctly on iPhone, Android, Mac and most apps. It was approved as part of Emoji 2.0 in 2015 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :botswana: to insert it.
Flag: Botswana emoji codes
| Emoji | 🇧🇼 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F1E7 U+1F1FC |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🇧🇼 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🇧🇼 |
| CSS | \1F1E7\1F1FC |
| JavaScript | \u{1F1E7}\u{1F1FC} |
| Python | \U0001F1E7\U0001F1FC |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%87%A7%F0%9F%87%BC |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 87 A7 F0 9F 87 BC |
| Shortcode | :botswana: |
| Shortcode (alt) | :flag_botswana: |
How to type 🇧🇼 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “Botswana”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “Botswana”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “Botswana”.
- HTML: write
🇧🇼in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Flag: Botswana keywords
- BW
- flag
Frequently asked questions
What does 🇧🇼 mean?
The 🇧🇼 Flag: Botswana emoji shows the national flag of Botswana. It is built from two regional indicator letters, BW (the ISO country code), which phones and apps combine into a flag. It is used to represent Botswana in conversations about travel, sport, national holidays, culture and pride. Windows does not display country flags as images — it shows the two letters instead — but the flag appears correctly on iPhone, Android, Mac and most apps. It was approved as part of Emoji 2.0 in 2015 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :botswana: to insert it.
How do I copy and paste the Flag: Botswana emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🇧🇼 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🇧🇼 Flag: Botswana added to Unicode?
Flag: Botswana was released as part of Emoji 2.0 in 2015.
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Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.