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Andorra
The flag, its colours in hearts, the two neighbours, and the emoji that say Andorra at a glance.
Money
Andorra uses the euro and mints its own euro coins; before 2002 it used the peseta and the French franc side by side.
Catalan is Andorra's only official language. These are its letters beyond A–Z, capital and small.
Catalan quotes with « », and Spanish, spoken by many Andorrans, adds ñ, ¿ and ¡.
Snow & ski
Grandvalira and Pal Arinsal–Ordino Arcalís, the winter that fills the valleys.
Mountains & nature
Peaks, lakes and the Madriu-Perafita-Claror valley.
Spa, shopping & travel
Escaldes' hot springs, the shops of Andorra la Vella, and the road in.
Food
Mountain cooking from Catalan tradition: trinxat, escudella, snails and mushrooms.
Holidays
Meritxell on 8 September, Sant Jordi, the Sant Joan fires and a Catalan Christmas.
Sport
FC Andorra, MoraBanc Andorra in the Spanish basketball league, and rugby from the French side.
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Andorra flag emoji 🇦🇩
The Andorra flag emoji is not a picture stored in Unicode but a pair of letters: the regional indicator symbols and , Andorra's country code AD. Phones and Macs draw the pair as the flag; Windows has no country flag pictures in its emoji font, so the same emoji shows there as the letters AD. It is still the flag, and anyone who receives it on a phone sees . It is listed in the emoji grid under its code, so typing 'andorra' in the emoji search of iPhone, Android or WhatsApp finds it.
The flag is three vertical stripes, blue, yellow and red, with the yellow one in the middle slightly wider and the national coat of arms on it. The shield brings together the country's history: a bishop's mitre and crozier for the Bishop of Urgell, the red and gold stripes of the Counts of Foix and of Catalonia, and two red cows for Béarn, under the motto Virtus Unita Fortior, 'strength united is stronger'.
At emoji size is easy to confuse with Moldova, Romania and Chad, which are also blue, yellow and red. Romania and Chad have no emblem at all; Moldova's has an eagle holding a cross, where Andorra's shows the mitre and the cows. When the picture is too small to tell, people spell the flag in hearts, , or write the name beside it.
Andorra emoji meanings:
Andorra sits high in the eastern Pyrenees between Spain and France, and its emoji are mostly mountains. and are the peaks around every valley, the highest being Coma Pedrosa at 2,942 metres; is the glacial valley of Madriu-Perafita-Claror, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2004, and the pine forests on its slopes. Andorra la Vella, the capital, is the highest capital city in Europe, at a little over 1,000 metres.
are winter. The three ski resorts, Grandvalira, Pal Arinsal and Ordino Arcalís, are major winter attractions, and Soldeu has hosted the finals of the Alpine Ski World Cup. are the snow that makes it possible. In summer the same slopes are : hiking routes between mountain refuges and lakes, via ferratas and the mountain-bike trails of Vallnord, which held the Mountain Bike World Championships in 2015. is road cycling: the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España regularly climb to Andorran finishes, and many professional riders live and train there.
and are the small Romanesque churches with stone bell towers that stand in almost every village, such as Sant Joan de Caselles in Canillo and Santa Coloma, whose bell tower is round. is shopping: low taxes made Andorra la Vella and Escaldes-Engordany a long shopping street for visitors from both sides of the border. are the hot springs that gave Escaldes its name and that feed Caldea, the glass-spired thermal spa. stands for the isard, the Pyrenean chamois, for the eagles and vultures overhead, and for the horses and cattle grazing high pastures in summer.
Andorran food emoji
Andorran cooking is Catalan mountain food. There is no emoji for trinxat, a classic mountain dish of cabbage and potato mashed and fried with bacon, so it is written . is escudella, the hearty meat and vegetable stew eaten in winter and above all at Christmas; is cargols, snails grilled or cooked a la llauna on a tray; the wild mushrooms that whole families go out to pick in autumn.
covers the cured sausages and the meat grilled over embers that fill restaurant menus, the local cheeses, and crema catalana, the custard with a burnt sugar crust that ends many meals.
Holidays in Andorra and the emoji people send
8 September is Andorra's national day, the feast of Our Lady of Meritxell, the country's patron saint, whose sanctuary stands in Canillo: . 14 March celebrates the Constitution, approved by referendum in 1993.
The Catalan calendar runs through the rest of the year. On 23 April, Sant Jordi, people give each other a rose and a book . Around the summer solstice the Sant Joan fires are lit, and the Pyrenean fire festivals of Andorra, Spain and France were inscribed together on UNESCO's intangible heritage list in 2015. At Christmas children feed and then beat the Tió until it 'gives' sweets, and on 6 January the Three Kings bring presents: . is carnival, celebrated in the parishes before Lent.
Andorra symbols: the euro, Catalan letters and Spanish
Andorra is not in the European Union, but it uses the euro , written after the amount as in Catalan, 20 . Since 2014 it has minted its own euro coins, with national designs such as the isard, the church of Santa Coloma, the Casa de la Vall, the old parliament house, and the coat of arms. Before the euro, Andorra had no currency of its own: the Spanish peseta and the French franc were used side by side.
Catalan is Andorra's only official language, and Andorra is the only country where it is the sole official language. Its letters beyond A–Z are the grave à è ò, the acute é í ó ú, the diaeresis ï ü, the cedilla ç and the punt volat of l·l, the middle dot that separates two l's pronounced apart, as in col·legi. Unicode also has single characters Ŀ ŀ made for this, but the standard way to write it is l · l. Catalan quotes with « » angle quotation marks. See the Catalan collection for every letter and how to type it; on Windows, Alt0183 gives ·, Alt0231 ç and Alt0224 à; on a Mac, OptionShift9 gives ·.
By CLDR estimates, about half of Andorra's roughly 85,000 people speak Catalan, around 37,000 speak Spanish and about 6,000 French, and Portuguese is widely heard too. Spanish adds ñ, ¿ and ¡, which are here as well; the Spanish, French and Portuguese collections cover those languages in full.
Andorra football emoji and other sports
with is cheered for the national team, one of the smallest in European football, for whom every goal is a celebration, and for FC Andorra, which plays in the Spanish league system. is MoraBanc Andorra in Spain's top basketball league, the ACB, and rugby, which came over the border from France and has a loyal following.
How to use them
6 situationsClick to copyAndorra Emoji combos
14Worth knowing
- Andorra has two heads of state at once: its co-princes are the Bishop of Urgell, across the border in Catalonia, and the President of France. The arrangement goes back to agreements of 1278 and 1288.
- Andorra has no airport and no railway. Everyone arrives by road , from Spain or over the high pass from France.
- From 2004 to 2009 Andorra took part in the Eurovision Song Contest, mostly with songs in Catalan, which made it the first country to sing in Catalan there. It never reached the final.
- Escaldes, half of the parish of Escaldes-Engordany, takes its name from its hot springs , and the town still has public fountains of warm mineral water.
- The yellow middle stripe of the Andorran flag is a little wider than the blue and red ones, one of the small details that tell it apart from Moldova's flag.
Questions people ask
7How do I copy and paste the Andorra flag emoji?
Tap in the grid to copy it and paste it anywhere. The hearts in the flag's colours and the flags of Spain and France are next to it.
Why does the Andorra flag emoji show as AD?
is made of two letters, and . Windows has no country flag pictures, so it shows the letters AD; on phones and Macs the same emoji appears as the flag.
What is the difference between the Andorra and Moldova flags?
Both are blue, yellow and red vertical stripes with an emblem in the middle. Andorra's shows a shield with a mitre and two cows; Moldova's shows an eagle holding a cross. Romania and Chad have the same colours with no emblem.
What are Andorra's national symbols?
The flag , the coat of arms with the mitre, the stripes of Foix and Catalonia and the two cows of Béarn, the motto Virtus Unita Fortior, the national anthem El Gran Carlemany, and Our Lady of Meritxell, the patron saint.
What is the currency symbol of Andorra?
The euro sign , written after the amount: 20 . Andorra mints its own euro coins. Before the euro it used the Spanish peseta and the French franc side by side.
What currency did Andorra use before the euro?
It never had a currency of its own in everyday use: prices were in Spanish pesetas and French francs , and both were accepted. The euro replaced them in 2002.
What language is spoken in Andorra?
Catalan is the only official language; Spanish, French and Portuguese are widely spoken too. Catalan adds à é è í ï ó ò ú ü ç and l·l to the alphabet, all in the grid.
