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
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
Appears in Topics
Related Emoji
Technical Reference
Platform Shortcodes
:cameroon: :flag-cm: :cameroon: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 🇨🇲 |
| HTML (hex) | 🇨🇲 |
| 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 |