BabelStone Flags v. 4.07 is a font that supports multicolour flag glyphs for Unicode character sequences representing various national, sub-national, supra-national, and miscellaneous flags. The font is under development, and does not yet support all national flags of the world. The current version of the font includes glyphs for 245 flags in total. The font uses the COLR/CPAL format for layered colour fonts, which is supported by all major browsers (including IE11, Edge, Firefox, and Chrome). The colour flags for national flags (represented as Regional Indicator Sequences) should display correctly on the latest versions of Edge, Firefox, and Chrome, as well as in Microsoft Word 2016 or later. The font also includes an SVG table for the colour glyphs, so may work on systems that support SVG fonts but do not support COLR/CPAL fonts (but I have not been able to test this).
This font supports the two mechanisms for representing country and region flags described in the proposed update to Unicode Technical Standard #51 (Unicode Emoji): Regional Indicator Sequences and Flag Emoji Tag Sequences. These sequences are defined in the Emoji 5.0 data.
These are sequences of two Regional Indicator letter symbols (1F1E6..1F1FF = A..Z) corresponding to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two-letter country codes (technically the Unicode Standard references Unicode region subtags defined in CLDR, which are derived from ISO 3166-1 codes). For example, the country code for USA ("US") is represented by the Unicode character sequence <1F1FA 1F1F8> (RIS-U, RIS-S). If a particular RI sequence is not supported, it should fallback to displaying as two individual Regional Indicator letter symbols (generally a boxed capital letter A through Z).
As the boundary between adjacent RI sequences is not indicated at the encoding level, it is possible to get unexpected diplay results for consecutive sequences of more than two RI symbols. For example, you may put a sequence of four RI symbols AQAZ (๎๎) on your web page, which you intend to render as the flags of Antarctica (AQ) and Azerbaijan (AZ), but if a visitor's browser does not support the flag of Antarctica the result for them may be the flag of Qatar (QA) sandwiched between orphaned RI symbols A and Z (๐ฆโ๎ โ๐ฟ). To avoid getting the wrong flags displayed it is safest to separate consecutive RI sequences with a space character or punctuation mark.
BabelStone Flags currently supports flags for 167 countries, territories or international entities with an ISO 3166-1 code, as well as the historic flags of Czechoslovakia (CS), East Germany (DD), the Soviet Union (SU), and Yugoslavia (YU).
These are sequences of a waving black flag character (U+1F3F4 ๐ด) followed by four or five lowercase tag letters (E0061..E007A) and/or tag digits (E0030..E0039) terminated by a cancel tag (E007F). These sequences correspond to ISO 3166-2 codes representing subdivisions of countries listed in ISO 3166-1 (e.g. states, provinces, counties, autonomous regions), but with the hyphen omitted, so for example the ISO 3166-2 code GB-SCT for Scotland is represented by this sequence of seven Unicode characters: <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0073 E0063 E0074 E007F> (Waving Black Flag, Tag-g, Tag-b, Tag-s, Tag-c, Tag-t, Cancel Tag). (Technically the Unicode Standard references Unicode subdivisionIDs defined in CLDR, which are derived from ISO 3166-2 codes.)
Tag characters are default ignorable and invisible, so if a flag tag sequence is not supported on a particular system it will fallback to displaying as a waving black flag. Thus, if you have a web site showing two different flag characters together (for example the England and Scotland flags), they may display correctly on your browser, but some visitors using different browsers may only see two identical waving black flags, which can be a little confusingย !
BabelStone Flags currently supports 80 sub-national flags for Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Iraq, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States:
Only three of these are recommended for implementation by the Unicode Consortium (flags for England, Scotland, and Wales), but the rest are not recommended not to be implemented. Note that there is no official flag for Northern Ireland, but as the Ulster Banner is used to represent Northern Ireland in major international sporting competitions such as the FIFA World Cup, this flag is used for GB-NIR in BabelStone Flags. The synonym for Wales, GB-CYM, defined in BS 6879 but not listed in ISO 3166-2, is also supported in BabelStone Flags.
BabelStone Flags also includes five flags for historic English, Scottish and Welsh counties that do not have an ISO 3166-2 code. In these cases I have made up an unofficial GB code with "X" as the first letter of the subdivision code (e.g. GB-XCR for Caernarfonshire). These are indicated with three stars in the table of Flags for ISO 3166-2 Country Subdivision Codes below.
In addition to the geo-political flags, BabelStone Flags also supports the Rainbow flag, Transgender flag, Pirate flag, and Australian Aboriginal flag. These are not single Unicode characters, but are represented as the following Emoji ZWJ Sequences (NB the sequence for the Australian Aboriginal flag is unofficial, and is not defined in the Unicode Standard)ย :
I have tested BabelStone Flags under Windows 10 on the latest versions of Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, and they all display the Rainbow and Pirate flags correctly. The Rainbow and Pirate flags also display correctly on Microsoft Word 2016 (but no longer display correctly for me on Microsoft Word 2019).
Display of Colour Flag Glyphs in Microsoft Word 2016
The colour glyphs are created using the High-Logic FontCreator font editor. The glyphs are not emoji-style (waving flag), but attempt to accurately reproduce the proportions and colours of the flags as a flat design. All flag glyphs have the same height, but have differing widths depending upon the flag proportions (1:1, 1:2, 2:3, and 3:5 being the most common proportions). Except for the flag of Nepal, all glyphs are square or rectangular in shape, with no flagpole. The glyphs do not have an added border line, so if displayed on a white background any flags with a white background or large sections of white (e.g. flags for Japan, Korea, Russia, and Zug) merge into the surrounding background. It is therefore best to display the flags on a background colour that is not normally used as a flag colour, such as light grey or beige.
Colour Flag Glyphs at 48 points in Firefox browser
If a particular software application supports the OpenType features used to substitute single glyphs for Regional Indicator sequences or flag emoji tag sequences, but it does not support the colour glyph format, then it will display fallback monochrome glyphs provided by the BabelStone Flags font. These monochrome glyphs are all in the form of a waving flag (with a flagpole on the left) with the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code on the flag. For flags corresponding to ISO 3166-2 subdivision codes the two- or three-letter code after the hyphen is placed under the flag.
Due to a bug in Chrome which displays the width of the colour glyphs as the width of the fallback monochrome glyph, the monochrome glyphs in BabelStone Flags have two dots on either side of the flag so that the monochrome glyph is exactly the same width as the corresponding colour glyph.
Monochrome Fallback Glyphs for Country Flags in BabelPad
The tables below render each flag character in the BabelStone Flags font, either using the font installed on your local machine or using a WOFF font if the font is not installed on your local machine.
This table lists the 167 ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes supported by the BabelStone Flags font. These include 159 officially assigned codes, four exceptionally reserved codes (CP, EU, SU, and UN), two transitional reserved codes (CS and YU), one deleted code (DD), and one user-assigned code (XK). Currently 90 officially assigned codes are not yet supported in the font.
| Code | Sequence | Glyph | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| AD | <1F1E6 1F1E9> | ๎ | Andorra |
| AE | <1F1E6 1F1EA> | ๎ | United Arab Emirates |
| AF | <1F1E6 1F1EB> | ๎ | Afghanistan |
| AG | <1F1E6 1F1EC> | ๎ | Antigua and Barbuda |
| AL | <1F1E6 1F1F1> | ๎ | Albania |
| AM | <1F1E6 1F1F2> | ๎ | Armenia |
| AO | <1F1E6 1F1F4> | ๎ | Angola |
| AQ | <1F1E6 1F1F6> | ๎ | Antarctica |
| AR | <1F1E6 1F1F7> | ๎ | Argentina |
| AT | <1F1E6 1F1F9> | ๎ | Austria |
| AU | <1F1E6 1F1FA> | ๎ | Australia |
| AW | <1F1E6 1F1FC> | ๎ | Aruba |
| AX | <1F1E6 1F1FD> | ๎ | ร land Islands |
| AZ | <1F1E6 1F1FF> | ๎ | Azerbaijan |
| BA | <1F1E7 1F1E6> | ๎ | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| BB | <1F1E7 1F1E7> | ๎ | Barbados |
| BD | <1F1E7 1F1E9> | ๎ | Bangladesh |
| BE | <1F1E7 1F1EA> | ๎ | Belgium |
| BF | <1F1E7 1F1EB> | ๎ | Burkina Faso |
| BG | <1F1E7 1F1EC> | ๎ | Bulgaria |
| BH | <1F1E7 1F1ED> | ๎ก | Bahrain |
| BI | <1F1E7 1F1EE> | ๎ข | Burundi |
| BJ | <1F1E7 1F1EF> | ๎ฃ | Benin |
| BL | <1F1E7 1F1F3> | ๎ฅ | Brunei Darussalam |
| BN | <1F1E7 1F1F1> | ๎ง | Saint Barthรฉlemy |
| BO | <1F1E7 1F1F4> | ๎จ | Bolivia |
| BQ | <1F1E7 1F1F6> | ๎ช | Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba [Uses the flag of the Netherlands] (See BQ-BO, BQ-SA, BQ-SE for individual flags) |
| BR | <1F1E7 1F1F7> | ๎ซ | Brazil |
| BS | <1F1E7 1F1F8> | ๎ฌ | Bahamas |
| BT | <1F1E7 1F1F9> | ๎ญ | Bhutan |
| BV | <1F1E7 1F1FB> | ๎ฏ | Bouvet Island [Uses the flag of Norway] |
| BW | <1F1E7 1F1FC> | ๎ฐ | Botswana |
| BY | <1F1E7 1F1FE> | ๎ฒ | Belarus |
| CA | <1F1E8 1F1E6> | ๎ด | Canada |
| CC | <1F1E8 1F1E8> | ๎ถ | Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
| CD | <1F1E8 1F1E9> | ๎ท | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| CF | <1F1E8 1F1EB> | ๎น | Central African Republic |
| CG | <1F1E8 1F1EC> | ๎บ | Congo |
| CH | <1F1E8 1F1ED> | ๎ป | Switzerland |
| CI | <1F1E8 1F1EE> | ๎ผ | Cรดte d'Ivoire |
| CK | <1F1E8 1F1F0> | ๎พ | Cook Islands |
| CL | <1F1E8 1F1F1> | ๎ฟ | Chile |
| CM | <1F1E8 1F1F2> | ๎ | Cameroon |
| CN | <1F1E8 1F1F3> | ๎ | China |
| CO | <1F1E8 1F1F4> | ๎ | Colombia |
| CP | <1F1E8 1F1F5> | ๎ | Clipperton Island [Uses the flag of France] Unofficial (exceptionally reserved code) |
| CR | <1F1E8 1F1F7> | ๎ | Costa Rica |
| CS | <1F1E8 1F1F8> | ๎ | Czechoslovakia Unofficial (transitional reserved code) |
| CU | <1F1E8 1F1FA> | ๎ | Cuba |
| CV | <1F1E8 1F1FB> | ๎ | Cabo Verde |
| CW | <1F1E8 1F1FC> | ๎ | Curaรงao |
| CX | <1F1E8 1F1FD> | ๎ | Christmas Island |
| CY | <1F1E8 1F1FE> | ๎ | Cyprus |
| CZ | <1F1E8 1F1FF> | ๎ | Czechia |
| DD | <1F1E9 1F1E9> | ๎ | German Democratic Republic (East Germany) Unofficial (deleted code) |
| DE | <1F1E9 1F1EA> | ๎ | Germany |
| DJ | <1F1E9 1F1EF> | ๎ | Djibouti |
| DK | <1F1E9 1F1F0> | ๎ | Denmark |
| DZ | <1F1E9 1F1FF> | ๎ง | Algeria |
| EE | <1F1EA 1F1EA> | ๎ฌ | Estonia |
| ER | <1F1EA 1F1F7> | ๎น | Eritrea |
| ES | <1F1EA 1F1F8> | ๎บ | Spain |
| ET | <1F1EA 1F1F9> | ๎ป | Ethiopia |
| EU | <1F1EA 1F1FA> | ๎ผ | European Union (EU) Unofficial (exceptionally reserved code) |
| FI | <1F1EB 1F1EE> | ๎ | Finland |
| FO | <1F1EB 1F1F4> | ๎ | Faroe Islands |
| FR | <1F1EB 1F1F7> | ๎ | France |
| GB | <1F1EC 1F1E7> | ๎ | United Kingdom |
| GE | <1F1EC 1F1EA> | ๎ | Georgia |
| GF | <1F1EC 1F1EB> | ๎ก | French Guiana |
| GG | <1F1EC 1F1EC> | ๎ข | Guernsey |
| GI | <1F1EC 1F1EE> | ๎ค | Gibraltar |
| GL | <1F1EC 1F1F1> | ๎ง | Greenland |
| GP | <1F1EC 1F1F5> | ๎ซ | Guadeloupe |
| GR | <1F1EC 1F1F7> | ๎ญ | Greece |
| GY | <1F1EC 1F1FE> | ๎ด | Guyana |
| HK | <1F1ED 1F1F0> | ๎ | Hong Kong |
| HN | <1F1ED 1F1F3> | ๎ | Honduras (2022 version; old version available in PUA at U+F001) |
| HR | <1F1ED 1F1F7> | ๎ | Croatia |
| HU | <1F1ED 1F1FA> | ๎ | Hungary |
| ID | <1F1EE 1F1E9> | ๎ | Indonesia |
| IE | <1F1EE 1F1EA> | ๎ | Ireland |
| IL | <1F1EE 1F1F1> | ๎ | Israel |
| IM | <1F1EE 1F1F2> | ๎ | Isle of Man |
| IN | <1F1EE 1F1F3> | ๎ | India |
| IQ | <1F1EE 1F1F6> | ๎ | Iran |
| IR | <1F1EE 1F1F7> | ๎ก | Iran |
| IS | <1F1EE 1F1F8> | ๎ข | Iceland |
| IT | <1F1EE 1F1F9> | ๎ฃ | Italy |
| JE | <1F1EF 1F1EA> | ๎ฎ | Jersey |
| JP | <1F1EF 1F1F5> | ๎น | Japan |
| KG | <1F1F0 1F1EC> | ๎ | Kyrgyzstan |
| KH | <1F1F0 1F1ED> | ๎ | Cambodia |
| KP | <1F1F0 1F1F5> | ๎ | North Korea |
| KR | <1F1F0 1F1F7> | ๎ | South Korea |
| KZ | <1F1F0 1F1FF> | ๎ | Kazakhstan |
| LA | <1F1F1 1F1E6> | ๎ | Lao People's Democratic Republic |
| LI | <1F1F1 1F1EE> | ๎ฆ | Liechtenstein |
| LT | <1F1F1 1F1F9> | ๎ฑ | Lithuania |
| LU | <1F1F1 1F1FA> | ๎ฒ | Luxembourg |
| LV | <1F1F1 1F1FB> | ๎ณ | Latvia |
| MC | <1F1F2 1F1E8> | ๎บ | Monaco |
| MD | <1F1F2 1F1E9> | ๎ป | Moldova, Republic of |
| ME | <1F1F2 1F1EA> | ๎ผ | Montenegro |
| MF | <1F1F2 1F1EB> | ๎ฝ | Saint Martin |
| MK | <1F1F2 1F1F0> | ๎ | North Macedonia |
| ML | <1F1F2 1F1F1> | ๎ | Mali |
| MM | <1F1F2 1F1F2> | ๎ | Myanmar |
| MN | <1F1F2 1F1F3> | ๎ | Mongolia |
| MO | <1F1F2 1F1F4> | ๎ | Macau |
| MQ | <1F1F2 1F1F6> | ๎ | Martinique |
| MR | <1F1F2 1F1F7> | ๎ | Mauritania (2017 version; old version available in PUA at U+F000) |
| MT | <1F1F2 1F1F9> | ๎ | Malta |
| MY | <1F1F2 1F1FE> | ๎ | Malaysia |
| NG | <1F1F3 1F1EC> | ๎ | Nigeria |
| NL | <1F1F3 1F1F1> | ๎ | Netherlands |
| NO | <1F1F3 1F1F4> | ๎ | Norway |
| NP | <1F1F3 1F1F5> | ๎ ก | Nepal |
| NU | <1F1F3 1F1FA> | ๎ ฆ | Niue |
| NZ | <1F1F3 1F1FF> | ๎ ซ | New Zealand |
| PA | <1F1F5 1F1E6> | ๎ | Panama |
| PE | <1F1F5 1F1EA> | ๎ | Peru |
| PF | <1F1F5 1F1EB> | ๎ | French Polynesia |
| PG | <1F1F5 1F1EC> | ๎ | Papua New Guinea |
| PH | <1F1F5 1F1ED> | ๎ | Philippines |
| PL | <1F1F5 1F1F1> | ๎ | Poland |
| PM | <1F1F5 1F1F2> | ๎ | Saint Pierre and Miquelon |
| PR | <1F1F5 1F1F7> | ๎ | Puerto Rico |
| PS | <1F1F5 1F1F8> | ๎ | Palestine, State of |
| PT | <1F1F5 1F1F9> | ๎ | Portugal |
| QA | <1F1F6 1F1E6> | ๎ | Qatar |
| RE | <1F1F7 1F1EA> | ๎พ | Rรฉunion |
| RO | <1F1F7 1F1F4> | ๎ | Romania |
| RS | <1F1F7 1F1F8> | ๎ | Serbia |
| RU | <1F1F7 1F1FA> | ๎ | Russia |
| SA | <1F1F8 1F1E6> | ๎ | Saudi Arabia |
| SD | <1F1F8 1F1E9> | ๎ | Sudan |
| SE | <1F1F8 1F1EA> | ๎ | Sweden |
| SG | <1F1F8 1F1EC> | ๎ | Singapore |
| SI | <1F1F8 1F1EE> | ๎ | Slovenia |
| SJ | <1F1F8 1F1EF> | ๎ | Svalbard and Jan Mayen [Uses the flag of Norway] |
| SK | <1F1F8 1F1F0> | ๎ | Slovakia |
| SM | <1F1F8 1F1F2> | ๎ | San Marino |
| SO | <1F1F8 1F1F4> | ๎ข | Somalia |
| SR | <1F1F8 1F1F7> | ๎ฅ | Suriname |
| SS | <1F1F8 1F1F8> | ๎ฆ | South Sudan |
| SU | <1F1F8 1F1FA> | ๎จ | Soviet Union (USSR) Unofficial (exceptionally reserved code) |
| SX | <1F1F8 1F1FD> | ๎ซ | Sint Maarten |
| TF | <1F1F9 1F1EB> | ๎ณ | French Southern Territories |
| TH | <1F1F9 1F1ED> | ๎ต | Thailand |
| TJ | <1F1F9 1F1EF> | ๎ท | Tajikistan |
| TM | <1F1F9 1F1F2> | ๎บ | Turkmenistan |
| TR | <1F1F9 1F1F7> | ๎ฟ | Turkey |
| TW | <1F1F9 1F1FC> | ๎ | Taiwan |
| UA | <1F1FA 1F1E6> | ๎ | Ukraine |
| UM | <1F1FA 1F1F2> | ๎ | United States Minor Outlying Islands [Uses the flag of the United States of America] |
| UN | <1F1FA 1F1F3> | ๎ | United Nations (UN) Unofficial (exceptionally reserved code) |
| US | <1F1FA 1F1F8> | ๎ | United States of America |
| UZ | <1F1FA 1F1FF> | ๎ก | Uzbekistan |
| VA | <1F1FB 1F1E6> | ๎ข | Holy See (Vatican City State) |
| VN | <1F1FB 1F1F3> | ๎ฏ | Viet Nam |
| WF | <1F1FC 1F1EB> | ๎ | Wallis and Futuna |
| XK | <1F1FD 1F1F0> | ๎ | Kosovo Unofficial (user-assigned code) |
| YT | <1F1FE 1F1F9> | ๎ | Mayotte |
| YU | <1F1FE 1F1FA> | ๎ | Yugoslavia Unofficial (transitional reserved code) |
| ZA | <1F1FF 1F1E6> | ๎ | South Africa |
| ZW | <1F1FF 1F1FC> | ๎ | Zimbabwe |
This table lists the 80 ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes that are supported by the BabelStone Flags font. The four codes marked with three stars (***) are unofficial codes that I have devised for places that do not have an ISO 3166-2 code (currently these are all traditional English, Scottish, or Welsh counties that do not correspond to modern administrative districts). Seven of the codes listed are treated as aliases for ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes, and share the same flag glyph, and three NL codes are treated as aliases for BQ codes. Therefore there are actually only 70 separate flag glyphs in the font for this table.
| Sequence | Glyph | Description |
|---|---|---|
| <1F3F4 E0061 E0074 E0031 E007F> | ๎ | Austria: Burgenland (AT-1) |
| <1F3F4 E0061 E0074 E0032 E007F> | ๎ | Austria: Kรคrnten (AT-2) |
| <1F3F4 E0061 E0074 E0033 E007F> | ๎ | Austria: Niederรถsterreich (AT-3) |
| <1F3F4 E0061 E0074 E0034 E007F> | ๎ | Austria: Oberรถsterreich (AT-4) |
| <1F3F4 E0061 E0074 E0035 E007F> | ๎ | Austria: Salzburg (AT-5) |
| <1F3F4 E0061 E0074 E0036 E007F> | ๎ | Austria: Steiermark (AT-6) |
| <1F3F4 E0061 E0074 E0037 E007F> | ๎ | Austria: Tirol (AT-7) |
| <1F3F4 E0061 E0074 E0038 E007F> | ๎ | Austria: Vorarlberg (AT-8) |
| <1F3F4 E0061 E0074 E0039 E007F> | ๎ | Austria: Wien (AT-9) |
| <1F3F4 E0062 E0065 E0062 E0072 E0075 E007F> | ๎ | Belgium: Brussels-Capital Region (BE-BRU) |
| <1F3F4 E0062 E0065 E0076 E006C E0067 E007F> | ๎ | Belgium: Flemish Region (BE-VLG) |
| <1F3F4 E0062 E0065 E0077 E0061 E006C E007F> | ๎ | Belgium: Walloon Region (BE-WAL) |
| <1F3F4 E0062 E0071 E0062 E006F E007F> | ๎ | Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba: Bonaire (BQ-BO = NL-BQ1) |
| <1F3F4 E0062 E0071 E0073 E0061 E007F> | ๎ก | Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba: Saba (BQ-SA = NL-BQ2) |
| <1F3F4 EE0062 E0071 0073 E0065 E007F> | ๎ข | Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba: Sint Eustatius (BQ-SE = NL-BQ3) |
| <1F3F4 E0063 E0061 E006E E006C E007F> | ๎ฐ | Canada: Newfoundland and Labrador (CA-NL) |
| <1F3F4 E0063 E0061 E006E E0075 E007F> | ๎ฑ | Canada: Nunavut (CA-NU) |
| <1F3F4 E0063 E0061 E0071 E0063 E007F> | ๎ฒ | Canada: Quebec (CA-QC) |
| <1F3F4 E0063 E0068 E0066 E0072 E007F> | ๎ | Switzerland: Fribourg (CH-FR) |
| <1F3F4 E0063 E0068 E006C E0075 E007F> | ๎ | Switzerland: Luzern (CH-LU) |
| <1F3F4 E0063 E0068 E006E E0065 E007F> | ๎ | Switzerland: Neuchรขtel (CH-NE) |
| <1F3F4 E0063 E0068 E0073 E006F E007F> | ๎ | Switzerland: Solothurn (CH-SO) |
| <1F3F4 E0063 E0068 E0073 E007A E007F> | ๎ | Switzerland: Schwyz (CH-SZ) |
| <1F3F4 E0063 E0068 E0074 E0069 E007F> | ๎ | Switzerland: Ticino (CH-TI) |
| <1F3F4 E0063 E0068 E0076 E0073 E007F> | ๎ | Switzerland: Valais (CH-VS) |
| <1F3F4 E0063 E0068 E007A E0067 E007F> | ๎ | Switzerland: Zug (CH-ZG) |
| <1F3F4 E0063 E0068 E007A E0068 E007F> | ๎ | Switzerland: Zรผrich (CH-ZH) |
| <1F3F4 E0063 E006E E0068 E006B E007F> | ๎ | China: Hong Kong SAR (CN-HK = HK) |
| <1F3F4 E0063 E006E E006D E006F E007F> | ๎ | China: Macau SAR (CN-MO = MO) |
| <1F3F4 E0064 E0065 E0062 E0079 E007F> | ๎ | Germany: Bavaria (DE-BY) (alternate version with lozenges available in the PUA at U+F400) |
| <1F3F4 E0065 E0073 E0063 E0074 E007F> | ๎ฐ | Spain: Catalonia (ES-CT) |
| <1F3F4 E0065 E0073 E0070 E0076 E007F> | ๎ฑ | Spain: Basque Country (ES-PV) |
| <1F3F4 E0066 E0072 E0062 E0072 E0065 E007F> | ๎ | France: Bretagne (FR-BRE) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0061 E0067 E0079 E007F> | ๎ | United Kingdom: Isle of Anglesey (GB-AGY/GB-YNM) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0063 E006F E006E E007F> | ๎ | United Kingdom: Cornwall (GB-CON) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0064 E0065 E0076 E007F> | ๎ | United Kingdom: Devon (GB-DEV) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0064 E006F E0072 E007F> | ๎ | United Kingdom: Dorset (GB-DOR) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0065 E006E E0067 E007F> | ๎ | United Kingdom: England (GB-ENG) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0066 E006C E006E E007F> | ๎ | United Kingdom: Flintshire (GB-FLN/GB-FFL) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E006D E006F E006E E007F> | ๎ | United Kingdom: Monmouthshire (GB-MON/GB-FYN) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E006E E0062 E006C E007F> | ๎ | United Kingdom: Northumberland (GB-NBL) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E006E E0069 E0072 E007F> | ๎ | United Kingdom: Northern Ireland (GB-NIR) [Not an official flag, but used for international sporting competitions] |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E006F E0072 E006B E007F> | ๎ | United Kingdom: Orkney Islands (GB-ORK) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0070 E0065 E006D E007F> | ๎ | United Kingdom: Pembrokeshire (GB-PEM/GB-BNF) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0073 E0063 E0074 E007F> | ๎ | United Kingdom: Scotland (GB-SCT) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0073 E0072 E0079 E007F> | ๎ | United Kingdom: Surrey (GB-SRY) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0076 E0067 E006C E007F> | ๎ | United Kingdom: The Vale of Glamorgan (GB-VGL/GB-BMG) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0077 E006C E0073 E007F> <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0063 E0079 E006D E007F> |
๎ | United Kingdom: Wales (GB-WLS/GB-CYM) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0078 E0062 E0072 E007F> | ๎ | United Kingdom: Breconshire (GB-XBR***) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0078 E0063 E0061 E007F> | ๎ | United Kingdom: Caithness (GB-XCA***) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0078 E0063 E0072 E007F> | ๎ก | United Kingdom: Caernarfonshire (GB-XCR***) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0078 E006B E0064 E007F> | ๎ข | United Kingdom: Kirkcudbrightshire (GB-XKD***) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E0078 E006D E0065 E007F> | ๎ฃ | United Kingdom: Merionethshire (GB-XME***) |
| <1F3F4 E0067 E0062 E007A E0065 E0074 E007F> | ๎ค | United Kingdom: Shetland Islands (GB-ZET) |
| <1F3F4 E0069 E0065 E0063 E007F> | ๎ | Ireland: Connacht (IE-C) |
| <1F3F4 E0069 E0065 E006C E007F> | ๎ | Ireland: Leinster / Laighin (IE-L) |
| <1F3F4 E0069 E0065 E006D E007F> | ๎ | Ireland: Munster / An Mhumhain (IE-M) |
| <1F3F4 E0069 E0065 E0075 E007F> | ๎ | Ireland: Ulster / Ulaidh (IE-U) |
| <1F3F4 E0069 E0071 E006B E0072 E007F> | ๎ | Iraq: Iqlฤซm Kลซrdistฤn / Herรชm-รฎ Kurdistan (IQ-KR) |
| <1F3F4 E006E E006C E0061 E0077 E007F> | ๎ | Netherlands: Aruba (NL-AW = AW) |
| <1F3F4 E006E E006C E0062 E0071 E0031 E007F> | ๎ | Netherlands: Bonaire (NL-BQ1 = BQ-BO) |
| <1F3F4 E006E E006C E0062 E0071 E0032 E007F> | ๎ก | Netherlands: Saba (NL-BQ2 = BQ-SA) |
| <1F3F4 E006E E006C E0062 E0071 E0033 E007F> | ๎ข | Netherlands: Sint Eustatius (NL-BQ3 = BQ-SE) |
| <1F3F4 E006E E006C E0066 E0072 E007F> | ๎ | Netherlands: Friesland (NL-FR) |
| <1F3F4 E006E E006C E0063 E0077 E007F> | ๎ | Netherlands: Curaรงao (NL-CW = CW) |
| <1F3F4 E006E E006C E0073 E0078 E007F> | ๎ซ | Netherlands: Sint Maarten (NL-SX = SX) |
| <1F3F4 E0075 E0073 E0061 E006B E007F> | ๎ | United States: Alaska (US-AK) |
| <1F3F4 E0075 E0073 E0061 E006C E007F> | ๎ | United States: Alabama (US-AL) |
| <1F3F4 E0075 E0073 E0061 E007A E007F> | ๎ | United States: Arizona (US-AZ) |
| <1F3F4 E0075 E0073 E0063 E0061 E007F> | ๎ | United States: California (US-CA) |
| <1F3F4 E0075 E0073 E0063 E006F E007F> | ๎ | United States: Colorado (US-CO) |
| <1F3F4 E0075 E0073 E0064 E0063 E007F> | ๎ | United States: District of Columbia (US-DC) |
| <1F3F4 E0075 E0073 E0068 E0069 E007F> | ๎ | United States: Hawaii (US-HI) |
| <1F3F4 E0075 E0073 E0069 E006E E007F> | ๎ | United States: Indiana (US-IN) |
| <1F3F4 E0075 E0073 E006D E0064 E007F> | ๎ | United States: Maryland (US-MD) |
| <1F3F4 E0075 E0073 E006E E006D E007F> | ๎ | United States: New Mexico (US-NM) |
| <1F3F4 E0075 E0073 E0070 E0072 E007F> | ๎ | United States: Puerto Rico (US-PR = PR) |
| <1F3F4 E0075 E0073 E0073 E0063 E007F> | ๎ | United States: South Carolina (US-SC) |
| <1F3F4 E0075 E0073 E0074 E006E E007F> | ๎ | United States: Tennessee (US-TN) |
| <1F3F4 E0075 E0073 E0074 E0078 E007F> | ๎ | United States: Texas (US-TX) |
| <1F3F4 E0075 E0073 E0075 E006D E007F> | ๎ | United States: United States Minor Outlying Islands (US-UM = UM) |
| Sequence | Glyph | Description |
|---|---|---|
| <1F3F3 FE0F 200D 1F308> <Waving White Flag, VS16, ZWJ, Rainbow> |
๎ฐ | Rainbow Flag |
| <1F3F3 FE0F 200D 26A7 FE0F> <Waving White Flag, VS16, ZWJ, Male with Stroke and Male and Female Sign, VS16> |
๎ฑ | Transgender Flag |
| <1F3F4 200D 2620 FE0F> <Waving Black Flag, ZWJ, Skull and Crossbones, VS16> |
๎ | Pirate Flag |
| <1F3F4 200D 1F998> <Waving Black Flag, ZWJ, Kangaroo> |
๎ | Australian Aboriginal flag |
| Sequence | Glyph | Description |
|---|---|---|
| <F000> | ๎ฐ | Version of the flag of Mauritania (MR) used between 1959 and 2017 |
| <F001> | ๎ฑ | Version of the flag of Honduras (HN) used between 1949 and 2022 |
| <F400> | ๎ก | Alternate version of the flag of Germany:Bavaria (DE-BY) |
The BabelStone Flags font currently supports 159 out of the 249 officially assigned ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes. The following 90 codes are not yet supported, although I hope to eventually support them all.
| Code | Sequence | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AI | <1F1E6 1F1EE> | Anguilla |
| AS | <1F1E6 1F1F8> | American Samoa |
| BM | <1F1E7 1F1F2> | Bermuda |
| BZ | <1F1E7 1F1FF> | Belize |
| DM | <1F1E9 1F1F2> | Dominica |
| DO | <1F1E9 1F1F4> | Dominican Republic |
| EC | <1F1EA 1F1E8> | Ecuador |
| EG | <1F1EA 1F1EC> | Egypt |
| EH | <1F1EA 1F1ED> | Western Sahara |
| FJ | <1F1EB 1F1EF> | Fiji |
| FK | <1F1EB 1F1F0> | Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
| FM | <1F1EB 1F1F2> | Micronesia (Federated States of) |
| GA | <1F1EC 1F1E6> | Gabon |
| GD | <1F1EC 1F1E9> | Grenada |
| GH | <1F1EC 1F1ED> | Ghana |
| GM | <1F1EC 1F1F2> | Gambia |
| GN | <1F1EC 1F1F3> | Guinea |
| GQ | <1F1EC 1F1F6> | Equatorial Guinea |
| GS | <1F1EC 1F1F8> | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands |
| GT | <1F1EC 1F1F9> | Guatemala |
| GU | <1F1EC 1F1FA> | Guam |
| GW | <1F1EC 1F1FC> | Guinea-Bissau |
| HM | <1F1ED 1F1F2> | Heard Island and McDonald Islands |
| HT | <1F1ED 1F1F9> | Haiti |
| IO | <1F1EE 1F1F4> | British Indian Ocean Territory |
| JM | <1F1EF 1F1F2> | Jamaica |
| JO | <1F1EF 1F1F4> | Jordan |
| KE | <1F1F0 1F1EA> | Kenya |
| KI | <1F1F0 1F1EE> | Kiribati |
| KM | <1F1F0 1F1F2> | Comoros |
| KN | <1F1F0 1F1F3> | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| KW | <1F1F0 1F1FC> | Kuwait |
| KY | <1F1F0 1F1FE> | Cayman Islands |
| LB | <1F1F1 1F1E7> | Lebanon |
| LC | <1F1F1 1F1E8> | Saint Lucia |
| LK | <1F1F1 1F1F0> | Sri Lanka |
| LR | <1F1F1 1F1F7> | Liberia |
| LS | <1F1F1 1F1F8> | Lesotho |
| LY | <1F1F1 1F1FE> | Libya |
| MA | <1F1F2 1F1E6> | Morocco |
| MG | <1F1F2 1F1EC> | Madagascar |
| MH | <1F1F2 1F1ED> | Marshall Islands |
| MP | <1F1F2 1F1F5> | Northern Mariana Islands |
| MS | <1F1F2 1F1F8> | Montserrat |
| MU | <1F1F2 1F1FA> | Mauritius |
| MV | <1F1F2 1F1FB> | Maldives |
| MW | <1F1F2 1F1FC> | Malawi |
| MX | <1F1F2 1F1FD> | Mexico |
| MZ | <1F1F2 1F1FF> | Mozambique |
| NA | <1F1F3 1F1E6> | Namibia |
| NC | <1F1F3 1F1E8> | New Caledonia |
| NE | <1F1F3 1F1EA> | Niger |
| NF | <1F1F3 1F1EB> | Norfolk Island |
| NI | <1F1F3 1F1EE> | Nicaragua |
| NR | <1F1F3 1F1F7> | Nauru |
| OM | <1F1F4 1F1F2> | Oman |
| PK | <1F1F5 1F1F0> | Pakistan |
| PN | <1F1F5 1F1F3> | Pitcairn |
| PW | <1F1F5 1F1FC> | Palau |
| PY | <1F1F5 1F1FE> | Paraguay |
| RW | <1F1F7 1F1FC> | Rwanda |
| SB | <1F1F8 1F1E7> | Solomon Islands |
| SC | <1F1F8 1F1E8> | Seychelles |
| SH | <1F1F8 1F1ED> | Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha |
| SL | <1F1F8 1F1F1> | Sierra Leone |
| SN | <1F1F8 1F1F3> | Senegal |
| ST | <1F1F8 1F1F9> | Sao Tome and Principe |
| SV | <1F1F8 1F1FB> | El Salvador |
| SY | <1F1F8 1F1FE> | Syrian Arab Republic |
| SZ | <1F1F8 1F1FF> | Eswatini |
| TC | <1F1F9 1F1E8> | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| TD | <1F1F9 1F1E9> | Chad |
| TG | <1F1F9 1F1EC> | Togo |
| TK | <1F1F9 1F1F0> | Tokelau |
| TL | <1F1F9 1F1F1> | Timor-Leste |
| TN | <1F1F9 1F1F3> | Tunisia |
| TO | <1F1F9 1F1F4> | Tonga |
| TT | <1F1F9 1F1F9> | Trinidad and Tobago |
| TV | <1F1F9 1F1FB> | Tuvalu |
| TZ | <1F1F9 1F1FF> | Tanzania, United Republic of |
| UG | <1F1FA 1F1EC> | Uganda |
| UY | <1F1FA 1F1FE> | Uruguay |
| VC | <1F1FB 1F1E8> | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
| VE | <1F1FB 1F1EA> | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) |
| VG | <1F1FB 1F1EC> | Virgin Islands (British) |
| VI | <1F1FB 1F1EE> | Virgin Islands (U.S.) |
| VU | <1F1FB 1F1FA> | Vanuatu |
| WS | <1F1FC 1F1F8> | Samoa |
| YE | <1F1FE 1F1EA> | Yemen |
| ZM | <1F1FF 1F1F2> | Zambia |
| Script | Language | Features | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latin <latn> | Default <dflt> | Glyph Composition Decomposition <ccmp> | Substitution colour glyphs for flag sequences |
| Font | Version | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| BabelStone Flags | 1.00 | 2014-04-03 | Experimental test font (several test versions during 2014โ2016). |
| BabelStone Flags | 2.00 | 2017-04-01 | First formal release, supporting 28 Regional Indicator sequences, 27 Flag Emoji tag sequences, rainbow flag, and pirate flag. |
| BabelStone Flags | 2.01 | 2017-04-05 | Added 7 Regional Indicator sequences and 15 Flag Emoji tag sequences. |
| BabelStone Flags | 2.02 | 2017-05-03 | Added 36 Regional Indicator sequences. |
| BabelStone Flags | 2.03 | 2017-11-11 | Added 10 Regional Indicator sequences. |
| BabelStone Flags | 2.04 | 2017-12-07 | Added 1 Regional Indicator sequence and 1 Flag Emoji tag sequence. |
| BabelStone Flags | 2.05 | 2018-02-10 | Added 1 Regional Indicator sequence. |
| BabelStone Flags | 2.06 | 2018-07-19 | Added 2 Regional Indicator sequences. |
| BabelStone Flags | 2.07 | 2018-09-27 | Added 8 Regional Indicator sequences and 3 Flag Emoji tag sequences. |
| BabelStone Flags | 2.08 | 2019-03-30 | Added 9 Flag Emoji tag sequences for the states of Austria. |
| BabelStone Flags | 2.09 | 2019-07-08 | Added 17 Regional Indicator sequences. |
| BabelStone Flags | 3.01 | 2020-09-23 | Added 3 Regional Indicator sequences and 6 Flag Emoji tag sequences for countries and special municipalities of the Netherlands. |
| BabelStone Flags | 3.02 | 2020-09-24 | Added 4 Regional Indicator sequences and 9 Flag Emoji tag sequences for the United States. |
| BabelStone Flags | 4.01 | 2021-10-14 | Changed the black and white fallback glyphs, and all non-flag characters to use a sans serif font style; added colour glyphs for Regional Indicator Symbols, Tags, Variation Selectors, and ZWJ; added colour glyphs for Rainbow, Skull & Crossbones, Waving White Flag, and Waving Black Flag characters. Added flags of Afghanistan, Bahrain, and Qatar. |
| BabelStone Flags | 4.02 | 2021-10-17 | Added flags of Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, and Uzbekistan. |
| BabelStone Flags | 4.03 | 2021-11-15 | Added flags of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Cook Islands, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Cabo Verde, and Christmas Island; also added the Transgender flag. |
| BabelStone Flags | 4.04 | 2022-01-30 | Added flag of Honduras. Adjusted colours of the flag of Mauritania to match the official specification. Added Australian Aboriginal flag to the PUA following the transfer of copyright to the Commonwealth of Australia. Replaced non-standard variation sequences for former and alternate flag designs with PUA characters. |
| BabelStone Flags | 4.05 | 2022-03-30 | Added flags of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan; the Kurdistan Region of Iraq; and flags for the historical countries of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. |
| BabelStone Flags | 4.06 | 2022-04-15 | Changed the encoding of the Australian Aboriginal Flag from PUA (U+F800) to a ZWJ sequence (Waving Black Flag + ZWJ + Kangaroo). |
| BabelStone Flags | 4.07 | 2023-05-18 | Add Flag Emoji tag sequence for Breconshire. Created a PUA-mapped version of the font. |
BabelStone Flags is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which means you are free to use it for personal or commercial purposes, and to redistribute it by itself or as part of a free or commercial software package, just as long as you do not sell the font on its own. The license also allows you to modify the font in any way you like, as long as the modified font does not use "BabelStone" in its name. Please read the license for details.
NB The WOFF and WOFF2 fonts are for web hosting, and are not required by most users.
If you have difficulty displaying or printing some or all of the flag glyphs then you may wish to use the "BabelStone Flags PUA" font which does not use OpenType features to render character sequences as glyphs, but maps all the flag glyphs to the Private Use Area (PUA) only. Country and region flags are mapped to the PUA in alphabetical two-letter code sequence from E000 (AA) through E2A3 (ZZ); flags for country subdivisions are mapped to E300 through E43F (e.g. US state flags are at E400 through E40C); and other flags are mapped to E2B0 through E2FF.
BabelStone Maritime (ASCII-mapped Maritime Signal Flags)