San Marino Emoji

The San Marino flag emoji 🇸🇲 is not a picture stored in Unicode but a pair of letters: the regional indicator symbols 🇸 and 🇲, San Marino's country code SM. Phones and Macs draw the pair as the flag; Windows has no country flag pictures in its emoji font, so there the same emoji shows as the letters SM. Anyone who receives it on a phone still sees 🇸🇲, and typing 'san marino' in the emoji search of iPhone, Android or WhatsApp finds it.

The flag is two horizontal stripes, white over light blue, usually read as the clouds and snow on Mount Titano and the sky above it, or as peace and liberty. In the middle is the coat of arms: three towers standing on three green peaks, each tower crowned with an ostrich feather 🪶, inside a shield framed by a branch of oak and a branch of laurel, with a crown 👑 on top for the republic's sovereignty and a ribbon with the motto LIBERTAS, liberty. The towers are the real Three Towers of the city, and the arms on their own are the San Marino emblem people search for. The plain white and blue flag without the arms is the civil flag.

At emoji size the arms shrink to a dot, and 🇸🇲 is easily mistaken for 🇬🇹 Guatemala, which is also light blue and white with an emblem in the middle. Guatemala's stripes run vertically, blue, white, blue; San Marino's run horizontally, white over blue. When the picture is too small to tell, people write the colours as hearts, 🤍💙, or the name beside the flag.

San Marino emoji meanings: 🏰 ⛰️ 🪶 💂 📮

San Marino is an enclave of about 61 square kilometres, surrounded on every side by 🇮🇹 Italy, between Emilia-Romagna and the Marche, a short drive inland from Rimini. It is the fifth smallest country in the world and, like 🇻🇦 Vatican City, a country entirely inside another. By CLDR estimates about 35,000 people live there, and they are called Sammarinese.

⛰️ is Mount Titano, 739 metres high, the limestone ridge that is almost the whole country seen from the coast, and 🪨 the rock it is made of. 🏰 stands for the Three Towers along its crest: Guaita, the oldest, Cesta, which holds a museum of old weapons, and Montale, the smallest, which is not open to visitors. Together with the old town they have been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2008. 🌄 is the view from the walls, across the hills of Romagna and Montefeltro to the 🌊 Adriatic on a clear day, 🚠 the cable car that climbs from Borgo Maggiore to the city, 🥾 📸 the walk between the towers.

🏛️ is the Palazzo Pubblico, the town hall and seat of government on Piazza della Libertà, and 💂 the Guard of the Rock in green and red whose changing of the guard visitors watch in front of it. 🛍️ is the shopping streets of the old town and the outlets below it, 🚌 the bus that runs up from Rimini, a popular way to get there, since San Marino has no airport and no rail link from Rimini.

📮 ✉️ 📯 are postal symbols. San Marino has issued its own since 1877, and its colourful issues have long been loved by collectors around the world; 🛂 depicts passport control; the tourist office offers a souvenir stamp for your passport, even though there is no border control on the road in.

Saint Marinus, the Captains Regent and San Marino holidays

🔨 🪨 ⛪ 🙏 belong to the founder. Tradition says the republic began in 301, when Marinus, a Christian stonemason from the island of Rab on the Dalmatian coast of today's 🇭🇷 Croatia, came to cut stone in Rimini and settled on Mount Titano. San Marino counts itself the oldest surviving republic in the world, and its Statutes of 1600 are among the oldest written constitutions still in force. The Basilica of San Marino ⛪ holds the saint's relics.

3 September is the Feast of Saint Marinus and the Founding of the Republic, the national day, with a procession, the flag-wavers and drummers 🚩🥁 and the crossbowmen 🏹🎯 of the Federazione Balestrieri: 🇸🇲🙏🏰. The crossbows, shields and swords 🛡️⚔️ come out again every summer for the Medieval Days in the old town.

1 April and 1 October are the days of the Captains Regent: San Marino has two heads of state at once, elected by parliament for six months and sworn in with a ceremony and a parade 🎺. 5 February is the feast of Saint Agatha, the co-patron, on whose day in 1740 the republic was freed from the occupation of Cardinal Alberoni, and 25 March remembers the Arengo of 1906, the assembly of family heads that renewed the republic's democracy. At Christmas 🎄 the old town fills with lights and market stalls, and 🕯️ 🔔 are the churches in all nine castelli, the municipalities the country is divided into.

Sammarinese food emoji: piadina, Torta Tre Monti and wine

San Marino eats like the Romagna around it. 🫓 is piadina, the thin flatbread cooked on a griddle and folded around cured ham, rocket and soft squacquerone cheese, and 🍝 the fresh pasta of the region, strozzapreti, tagliatelle and passatelli.

🍫🍰 is the Torta Tre Monti, the country's best-known cake: thin wafer layers spread with hazelnut and chocolate cream and coated in chocolate, sold in boxes with the Three Towers on them. 🍮 is cacciatello, a baked milk and egg pudding with caramel, much like crème caramel. 🍷🍇 are the wines of the hills below Titano, Sangiovese red and sweet Moscato.

San Marino symbols: the euro, the lira and Italian letters

San Marino is not in the European Union, but by agreement with it uses the euro €, written after the amount in the Italian way, 20 €, and mints its own euro coins 🪙 with Sammarinese designs such as the Three Towers and Saint Marinus. Few are made, so collectors often pay more than face value. Before 2002 it used the Italian lira ₤ and minted its own lira coins at par with Italy's, and it still issues gold scudi for collectors. San Marino's own currency symbol, in short, is the euro sign.

Italian is the official language, spoken by about 31,000 people by CLDR estimates, and many older Sammarinese also speak the local Romagnol dialect. Italian orthography uses accented vowel forms: à è é ì ò ù. The grave on à ì ò ù marks a stressed last vowel, as in città, city, and libertà, liberty; è and é tell open e from closed e, as in è, is, against perché, why. Italian quotes with « » or “ ”. On an Italian keyboard the small letters have their own keys; elsewhere use Alt+0224 à, Alt+0232 è, Alt+0233 é, Alt+0236 ì, Alt+0242 ò, Alt+0249 ù on Windows, Option+` and then the letter for the grave on a Mac, Option+e and then e for é, or a long press on the letter on a phone. Capital È, Alt+0200, is the one Italians most often fake as E'. The Italian collection has every letter, and the Italy and Vatican City collections are the neighbours of this one.

San Marino football ⚽, motor racing and Olympic medals

⚽ with 🇸🇲 is the national team, one of the smallest in Europe, whose few goals are remembered for decades. On 17 November 1993 Davide Gualtieri scored against England after about eight seconds, for many years the fastest goal in World Cup qualifying, and in September 2024 San Marino won its first competitive match, 1–0 against 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein in the Nations League. At home the clubs play in the Campionato Sammarinese, whose champions go on to the qualifying rounds of the European cups.

🏎️ is the San Marino Grand Prix of Formula 1, which from 1981 to 2006 was held not in San Marino but at Imola, in Italy, because there is no room for a circuit on Titano; it is also the race where Ayrton Senna died in 1994. 🏍️ is the San Marino and Rimini Riviera MotoGP Grand Prix at Misano, just over the border, and riders such as Manuel Poggiali, 125cc and 250cc world champion. ⚾ is baseball, where the San Marino club has long been one of the strongest in Italy's top league. 🎯🥈🥉 are the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where the trap shooters Alessandra Perilli and Gian Marco Berti won San Marino's first Olympic medals, a bronze and a silver.