Norway Emoji

The Norwegian flag emoji 🇳🇴 shows a blue Scandinavian cross edged in white on a red field. It was designed by Fredrik Meltzer and adopted by the parliament, the Storting, in 1821, when Norway was in union with Sweden; its red, white and blue were chosen as the colours of freedom, shared with France, Britain and the United States. Norwegians like to call it the mother of all flags, because you can crop the flags of France, the Netherlands, Poland, Indonesia and Thailand out of it. For the colours alone, use hearts ❤️🤍💙 or squares 🟥⬜🟦.

Like every country flag, 🇳🇴 is not one character but two regional indicator letters, 🇳 + 🇴 for the country code NO. Phones and Macs draw the pair as a flag; Windows, and with it Outlook and many desktop apps, has no flag pictures in its emoji font and shows the two letters instead, which for Norway reads, a little awkwardly, as NO. Anyone reading your message on an iPhone or Android still sees the flag.

Norway has two more flag emoji that look exactly like it: 🇸🇯 Svalbard & Jan Mayen and 🇧🇻 Bouvet Island. Both are Norwegian territories with no flag of their own, so Apple, Google and Samsung draw the Norwegian flag for them; they have their own collections on this site. Norway is not in the European Union: Norwegians voted against joining in 1972 and again in 1994, so 🇪🇺 does not belong here.

👑 stands for the monarchy; King Harald V has reigned since 1991, and on the coat of arms a crowned golden lion 🦁 holds the axe 🪓 of Saint Olav on red. 💂 is the King's Guard outside the Royal Palace in Oslo. Norway has about 5.5 million people by CLDR's estimate, and Norwegian is written in two official standards, Bokmål and Nynorsk, which have their own pages here (Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk). For the neighbours see the Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland collections.

How to type Æ Ø Å, the Sámi letters and the Norwegian krone (kr)

Norwegian writes with A–Z plus three letters at the very end of the alphabet: Æ æ, Ø ø and Å å, in that order. They are separate letters, not decorated a's and o's: øl is beer, ø on its own means island, and å is both a small river and the word "to" before a verb. Å replaced the old double aa in the spelling reform of 1917, but names keep it, as in the surname Aasen. Accents are rare and mostly optional: é marks stress in én ("one", against the article en) and in borrowings like idé and kafé; ô separates fôr (fodder, lining) from for, ò marks Nynorsk òg ("also") and fòr ("furrow"), and à is used in prices, as in 3 billetter à 150 kr. Ø is the Norwegian and Danish twin of the Swedish Ö; it is not the empty-set sign ∅.

Sámi and Norwegian are by law languages of equal worth, and some road signs in the north are bilingual. Northern Sámi, the most widely spoken Sámi language, adds Á á, Č č, Đ đ, Ŋ ŋ, Š š, Ŧ ŧ and Ž ž to the alphabet: Kautokeino is Guovdageaidnu, Karasjok, where the Sámi Parliament sits, is Kárášjohka. Copy them from the grid; Đ is the D with a stroke, not the Icelandic Ð.

On a Norwegian keyboard Ø and Æ have their own keys to the right of L, in that order (the Danish layout swaps them), and Å sits to the right of P. Elsewhere on Windows hold Alt and type on the number pad: Æ 0198, æ 0230, Ø 0216, ø 0248, Å 0197, å 0229, É 0201, é 0233. With the US-International layout use AltGr+Z for æ, AltGr+L for ø and AltGr+W for å. On a Mac press Option+' for æ, Option+O for ø and Option+A for å, adding Shift for the capitals. On a phone long-press a for å and æ, and o for ø. In HTML use æ, ø and å.

The Norwegian krone (NOK, "crown") has no symbol of its own in Unicode: prices are written kr, as in 50 kr or kr 50,00, and a krone is 100 øre, though the last øre coin went out of use in 2012. The 1 and 5 krone coins 🪙 have a hole in the middle, but most Norwegians pay by card 💳 or with Vipps on the phone 📱, so widely that å vippse someone money is an everyday verb. The keyboard puts the general currency sign ¤ on Shift+4 and § on Shift with the key left of 1. Norwegian quotation marks are «sitat», with the points facing outward and no spaces, and ‘sitat’ inside them; on Windows « is Alt+0171 and » Alt+0187.

Norway emoji for fjords, northern lights and nature

Norway is fjords and mountains: 🏔️⛰️🌊 is the Geirangerfjord or the Lysefjord with Preikestolen, and ⛴️ the car ferries that cross them and the Hurtigruten ships that have sailed the coast since 1893, today from Bergen to Kirkenes. ☔ is Bergen, one of the rainiest cities in Europe, and 🌲🫐 the spruce forests where berry picking is a summer ritual, made possible by allemannsretten, the right to roam on uncultivated land.

North of the Arctic Circle the year swings between two kinds of light. In summer 🌞 the midnight sun does not set at the North Cape for weeks; in winter comes the polar night, and with it the northern lights. There is no aurora emoji, so people send 🌌 or a green 💚 with ❄️ from Tromsø and Lofoten.

🫎 the moose is called skogens konge, the king of the forest, and has its own warning signs on the roads. 🦌 is the reindeer herded by the Sámi in Finnmark, 🐻‍❄️ the polar bear of Svalbard, where people carry rifles outside the settlements, and 🦅 the white-tailed sea eagle of the coast. 🐋🫍🦭 are the whales, orcas and seals that follow the winter herring into the fjords near Tromsø. 🐑 and 🐐 graze summer pastures on the mountains, and 🐈 is the Norwegian Forest Cat, the long-haired skogkatt.

Friluftsliv, outdoor life, is close to a national religion: Ut på tur, aldri sur, "out on a trip, never grumpy". 🥾 is the Sunday walk, 🏡 the hytte, the family cabin in the mountains or by the sea, 🪵🔥 its fireplace (in 2013 NRK showed twelve hours of firewood burning live on television), and 🎣 the fishing that goes with it.

Norwegian food emoji: brunost, waffles, salmon and taco Friday

There is no brown cheese emoji, so 🧀 stands in for brunost, the sweet caramel-brown whey cheese, often made with goat's milk 🐐 and cut thin with the cheese slicer, which Thor Bjørklund patented in Norway in 1925. It goes on 🧇 heart-shaped waffles with jam and on the slices of bread in the matpakke 🥪, the packed lunch most Norwegians take to school and work.

🐟 is cod, salmon and the stockfish dried on wooden racks in Lofoten and shipped to Italy for centuries; at Christmas some eat it as lutefisk. 🍣 is Norwegian salmon in sushi, which became common in Japan after a Norwegian export campaign that began in the 1980s. 🦀 is the giant king crab of Finnmark and 🦐 the shrimp eaten from paper on the quay in summer. Fårikål, mutton 🐑 and cabbage 🥬 stewed with whole peppercorns and served with 🥔, is the dish Norwegians have voted their national dish, and it even has its own day at the end of September.

Two everyday favourites surprise visitors: 🍕 Grandiosa, the frozen pizza that is Norway's best-selling brand, and 🌮 fredagstaco, the taco dinner that many families eat every Friday. 🌭 is a pølse in a lompe, a soft potato flatbread. ☕ matters: Norway is among the world's heaviest coffee drinkers. 🥃 is aquavit, and Linie Aquavit is shipped across the equator and back in oak casks before it is sold. Skål! 🍻 is the toast.

17. mai, Christmas and the holidays Norwegians send emoji for

Syttende mai, the 17th of May, is Constitution Day: the constitution 📜 was signed at Eidsvoll on 17 May 1814. Instead of military parades the day belongs to children, whose barnetog parades march with flags 🇳🇴 and school bands 🥁🎺 past the Royal Palace in Oslo, where the royal family waves from the balcony. People wear their bunad 👗, the embroidered regional costume, shout Hipp hipp hurra! and eat plenty of hot dogs 🌭 and ice cream 🍦. 🇳🇴🎉🌭🍦 is the classic 17. mai combo.

Christmas (jul) peaks on Christmas Eve, 24 December. Dinner is ribbe, crisp pork belly 🐖, or pinnekjøtt, salted lamb ribs, and many homes bake Christmas cookies, though baking seven kinds is a tradition rather than a rule 🍪. Whoever finds the almond in the rice porridge 🍚 wins a marzipan pig 🐖. 🎅 is julenissen, who brings the presents 🎁, and 🧝 the farm nisse, who must be left a bowl of porridge with butter. 🕯️ are the four Advent candles. Every year since 1947 Oslo has sent a Christmas tree 🎄 to London's Trafalgar Square as thanks for British help in the Second World War.

At Easter (påske) Norwegians head to the mountains to ski ⛷️ with oranges 🍊 and Kvikk Lunsj chocolate 🍫 in the backpack, and read påskekrim 🕵️, the Easter crime novels and TV series, a habit that goes back to a 1923 book advert that readers took for real news of a train robbery. On Sankthans, the evening of 23 June, bonfires 🔥 burn along the fjords. 6 February is Sámi National Day, and on 10 December the Nobel Peace Prize 🕊️ is awarded in Oslo, the one Nobel Prize given in Norway rather than Sweden.

Skiing, trolls, Munch and other Norway emoji

Norwegians say they are født med ski på beina, born with skis on their feet. ⛷️🎿 are cross-country skiing and biathlon, ⛸️ speed skating, and 🥇 the result: Norway has won more Winter Olympic medals than any other country, including a record 18 golds at Milano Cortina 2026. 🥌 recalls the curling team's harlequin trousers at the 2010 Olympics. In summer sports ⚽ is Erling Haaland and Martin Ødegaard, and the women's team that won the 1995 World Cup; 🤾 is handball, where the women's team is among the world's best; and ♟️ is Magnus Carlsen, world chess champion from 2013 to 2023.

🧌 Trolls are everywhere in Norwegian folk tales and place names, from Trollstigen, the hairpin mountain road, to Trolltunga, the rock tongue above Ringedalsvatnet; Grieg wrote In the Hall of the Mountain King for Ibsen's Peer Gynt. ⛪ fits the wooden stave churches, of which 28 survive, Urnes among them on UNESCO's list. ⚔️⛵ are the Vikings and their longships, such as the Oseberg and Gokstad ships found in burial mounds by the Oslofjord, and 🧭 is Roald Amundsen, who reached the South Pole first, on 14 December 1911.

😱 is the emoji people pair with Edvard Munch's The Scream, inspired by a blood-red sunset over the Oslofjord, first painted in 1893 and kept in Oslo's museums. 🎭 is Henrik Ibsen, author of A Doll's House; 🎻 is the Hardanger fiddle with its extra sympathetic strings, and also Alexander Rybak, who won Eurovision for Norway in 2009 playing the violin; 🎹 is a-ha's Take On Me. 🧶 is the patterned wool sweater, such as the Marius sweater and the eight-petalled Selbu rose, and 📎 the paper clip: the Norwegian Johan Vaaler patented an early design in 1899, and Norwegians wore paper clips on their lapels as a quiet sign of resistance during the German occupation.

Modern Norway is 🚗🔌: close to nine in ten new cars sold in 2024 were fully electric, the highest share in the world, and about nine tenths of the country's electricity comes from hydropower. 🛢️ is the North Sea oil and gas behind the state's oil fund, the world's largest sovereign wealth fund. 🚞 is the Flåm Railway, one of the steepest standard-gauge lines in the world.