The flag some iPhones will not show
๐น๐ผ Taiwan is in Unicode like every other flag, but Apple removes it from iPhones configured for the mainland China region: it disappears from the keyboard, and a ๐น๐ผ someone sends you will not draw. Switch the phone's region and it comes back, so if a friend says your Taiwan flag never arrived, region settings are the likely reason, not a broken message. Other platforms, including Android, Windows apps with their own emoji and the web, draw it everywhere.
Look-alike flags at emoji size
Some Asian flags are close enough that they get swapped in a hurry. ๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia and ๐ฒ๐จ Monaco are both red over white; OpenMoji, when we hashed its artwork on 2026-10-18, even uses one image for both, while Apple, Google and Twitter/X keep them apart by proportion. ๐ฏ๐ต Japan and ๐ง๐ฉ Bangladesh both use a single disc, white field for Japan and green for Bangladesh. ๐ฐ๐ต North Korea and ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea are the pair people most often mean to tell apart; the South's flag is the white one with the red and blue taegeuk. ๐ณ๐ต Nepal is easy to spot because it is the only national flag in the world that is not a rectangle.
Spelling Asian flags by their codes
Each flag is two regional indicator letters, which matters if you build flags in code or on a device that shows letters instead of pictures. China is CN, Japan JP, India IN, both Koreas KP and KR, Vietnam VN and Timor-Leste TL. A few codes trip people up: ๐ฑ๐ฐ Sri Lanka is LK, ๐ฒ๐ฒ Myanmar is MM, ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia is KH, and ๐ฐ๐ฌ Kyrgyzstan is KG. On Windows, where Chrome and Edge show these letter pairs rather than flags, this list doubles as a decoder.
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