Meaning
Belize's flag is visually striking, dominated by a royal blue field with a white horizontal stripe running through the center. At the heart sits the national coat of arms—featuring a shield with logwood trees, a sailing ship, and a motto banner reading "Sub Umbra Flourish" (Under the Shade I Flourish). This Central American country's flag reflects its maritime heritage and colonial history.
This flag appears when people discuss Belize, particularly in travel and tourism contexts—it's a popular Caribbean destination known for barrier reefs and Mayan ruins. You'll see it in conversations about Caribbean culture, regional sports, or when Belizeans express national pride online.
On social platforms, the Belize flag helps travelers share vacation plans, digital nomads signal their location, or communities celebrate Belizean independence and cultural events. It's also used in posts about Caribbean identity and regional solidarity.
The flag's unique coat of arms makes it one of the more visually detailed country flags. Approved as part of Unicode Emoji 2.0 in 2015, this flag is consistently rendered across platforms, though the intricate coat of arms details may vary slightly depending on your device.
Common Uses
- • Tagging travel photos from Belize
- • Celebrating Belizean culture and heritage
- • Identifying location in profiles or posts
- • Discussing Caribbean destinations
Popular Combos
Did You Know?
Belize is the only English-speaking country in Central America, and its flag is one of the most intricate in the world due to the detailed coat of arms at its center.
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Technical Reference
Platform Shortcodes
:belize: :flag-bz: :belize: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 🇧🇿 |
| HTML (hex) | 🇧🇿 |
| CSS | \1F1E7\1F1FF |
| JavaScript | \uD83C\uDDE7\uD83C\uDDFF |
| Python | \U0001F1E7\U0001F1FF |
| Java | \uD83C\uDDE7\uD83C\uDDFF |
| Perl | \x{1F1E7}\x{1F1FF} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{1F1E7}\x{1F1FF} |
| Punycode | xn--2qcn-2qdb |
| URL Encoded | %F0%9F%87%A7%F0%9F%87%BF |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA7 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBF |
🇧🇿 in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | পতাকা: বেলিজ |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 旗: 伯利兹 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 旗子:貝里斯 |
| Danish | Belize |
| Dutch | vlag: Belize |
| English | flag: Belize |
| English (UK) | flag: Belize |
| Estonian | lipp: Belize |
| Finnish | lippu: Belize |
| French | drapeau : Belize |
| German | Flagge: Belize |
| Hindi | झंडा: बेलीज़ |
| Hungarian | zászló: Belize |
| Italian | bandiera: Belize |
| Japanese | 旗: ベリーズ |
| Korean | 깃발: 벨리즈 |
| Lithuanian | vėliava: Belizas |
| Malay | bendera: Belize |
| Norwegian | flagg: Belize |
| Polish | flaga: Belize |
| Portuguese | bandeira: Belize |
| Russian | флаг: Белиз |
| Spanish | Bandera: Belice |
| Spanish (Mexico) | Bandera: Belice |
| Swedish | flagga: Belize |
| Thai | ธง: เบลีซ |
| Ukrainian | прапор: Беліз |
| Vietnamese | cờ: Belize |