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Flag: Cameroon 🇨🇲

Added in Emoji 2 · Flags Country Flags

Codepoint U+1F1E8 U+1F1F2
Shortcode :cameroon:
Version Emoji 2

Meaning

Cameroon's flag consists of three vertical stripes in green, red, and yellow, with a gold star centered on the red stripe. The colors represent pan-African identity shared across the continent, while the star symbolizes unity. This West and Central African nation sits on the Gulf of Guinea and serves as a cultural crossroads between Anglophone and Francophone Africa.

You'll encounter this flag in discussions about Central African geography, politics, and culture. It's particularly prominent during soccer season, as Cameroon has a fierce football tradition and has won the African Cup of Nations multiple times. The nation is also known for its biodiversity, coffee production, and complex linguistic heritage—it's one of Africa's most multilingual countries.

On social media and in messaging, people from Cameroon use this flag to express national identity and pride. It appears in conversations about African development, music (Cameroon has a rich hip-hop and traditional music scene), and diaspora communities maintaining ties to home.

Approved as part of Unicode Emoji 2.0 in 2015, this flag represents an important Central African nation with significant cultural influence across the continent.

Common Uses

  • Expressing Cameroonian national pride
  • Discussing Central African culture
  • Supporting Cameroon in sports
  • Connecting with diaspora communities

Popular Combos

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Did You Know?

Cameroon is sometimes called 'Africa in miniature' because it contains nearly every ecosystem found on the continent—from rainforests to deserts—and boasts extraordinary biodiversity.

Keywords

CM flag

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Technical Reference

Platform Shortcodes

GitHub :cameroon:
Slack :flag-cm:
Discord :cameroon:

Developer Codes

HTML (decimal)
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HTML (hex)
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CSS
\1F1E8\1F1F2
JavaScript
\uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDF2
Python
\U0001F1E8\U0001F1F2
Java
\uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDF2
Perl
\x{1F1E8}\x{1F1F2}
PHP / Ruby
\x{1F1E8}\x{1F1F2}
Punycode
xn--2qco-2qcy
URL Encoded
%F0%9F%87%A8%F0%9F%87%B2
UTF-8 Bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA8 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB2

🇨🇲 in 28 languages

Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.

Language Name
Bengali পতাকা: ক্যামেরুন
Chinese (Simplified) 旗: 喀麦隆
Chinese (Traditional) 旗子:喀麥隆
Danish Cameroun
Dutch vlag: Kameroen
English flag: Cameroon
English (UK) flag: Cameroon
Estonian lipp: Kamerun
Finnish lippu: Kamerun
French drapeau : Cameroun
German Flagge: Kamerun
Hindi झंडा: कैमरून
Hungarian zászló: Kamerun
Italian bandiera: Camerun
Japanese 旗: カメルーン
Korean 깃발: 카메룬
Lithuanian vėliava: Kamerūnas
Malay bendera: Cameroon
Norwegian flagg: Kamerun
Polish flaga: Kamerun
Portuguese bandeira: Camarões
Russian флаг: Камерун
Spanish Bandera: Camerún
Spanish (Mexico) Bandera: Camerún
Swedish flagga: Kamerun
Thai ธง: แคเมอรูน
Ukrainian прапор: Камерун
Vietnamese cờ: Cameroon