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Spain
The flag, the two Spanish flags of the Canary Islands and Ceuta & Melilla, and the emoji that say Spain at a glance.
Money
Spanish letters
Ñ, the acute accents and ü of Spanish; Galician uses the same letters.
Spanish punctuation
Opening question and exclamation marks, angle quotes, and the ordinal signs of 1.º and 2.ª.
Catalan letters
The letters of Catalan and Valencian's own spelling: the grave accents, ç, ï and the punt volat of l·l.
Food & drink
Places & nature
Fiestas & holidays
Sports
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Spain flag emoji 🇪🇸 and the regional flags
The Spain flag emoji is not a picture stored in Unicode but a pair of letters: the regional indicator symbols and , Spain's country code ES. Phones and Macs draw the pair as the red and yellow flag; Windows has no country flag pictures in its emoji font, so the same emoji shows there as the letters ES. It is still the flag, and anyone you send it to on a phone sees .
Spain was one of the first ten countries with a flag emoji: came from the Japanese phone emoji sets that Unicode adopted in 2010, together with and . Two more flags belong to Spain: the Canary Islands, blue, white and yellow, and Ceuta and Melilla, the two Spanish cities on the North African coast, which most platforms draw with the Spanish flag because the cities share no single flag of their own.
There is no standard emoji for Catalonia, the Basque Country, Galicia, Andalusia or any other autonomous community. People spell the flags in coloured hearts instead: for the Catalan senyera, for the Basque ikurriña, for Galicia and for Andalusia.
Spain emoji meanings:
is officially woman dancing, but Apple's design, a woman in a flowing red dress with one arm raised, made it the flamenco emoji for most of the world; and (the palmas, the rhythmic hand-claps of flamenco) go with it. stands for the Spanish guitar, from flamenco to classical, and the folding fan is the abanico, opened on hot summer evenings and part of the flamenco dress.
shallow pan of food is the emoji everyone calls the paella emoji: a wide, flat pan of rice, which is what a paella is. is used for the bull of Spanish popular culture, above all the black Osborne bull, the huge silhouette that has stood beside Spanish roads since the 1950s; after the advertising text was removed, the bulls were allowed to stay as part of the landscape.
come from the coat of arms. Spain is a kingdom, the shield is topped by a crown, and its quarters show a castle for Castile and a lion for León, the two medieval kingdoms at the heart of the country. cover the coasts and the Balearic and Canary Islands, is Mount Teide on Tenerife, Spain's highest peak, and the Pyrenees and the Sierra Nevada.
For landmarks: the Sagrada Família in Barcelona or the cathedrals of Seville and Santiago, the Mezquita of Córdoba, the Alhambra in Granada and Segovia's castle, the Roman theatres of Mérida and Tarragona, the Prado and the painters Velázquez, Goya, Picasso and Dalí. is Madrid, whose emblem is a bear reaching up to a strawberry tree, the Spanish imperial eagle, the sunflower fields of Andalusia and the AVE, Europe's longest high-speed rail network.
Spanish food emoji: paella, tapas, jamón
Tapas come out of the emoji keyboard almost piece by piece: olives (Spain produces more olive oil than any other country), Manchego cheese, for jamón, often with for the Iberian pig it comes from, gambas al ajillo with , pulpo a la gallega, calamares and for anchovies, sardines and bacalao. is pan con tomate, a bocadillo, pimientos de Padrón and gazpacho or salmorejo.
There is no emoji for the tortilla de patatas, so it is written , and adding starts Spain's favourite food argument: con cebolla or sin cebolla. is paella and its rice; a true paella valenciana is made with chicken, rabbit and green beans, and the seafood version is a different dish. is fabada asturiana, churros con chocolate, flan or crema catalana, the roasted chestnuts of autumn and Valencia's oranges.
To drink: Rioja and the other wines, for sangria, for cava, Catalonia's sparkling wine, and a caña, the small draught beer ordered at the bar.
Fiestas and holidays in Spain emoji
On New Year's Eve, Nochevieja, Spaniards eat twelve grapes on the twelve chimes of midnight, one per chime, watching the clock of the Puerta del Sol in Madrid: . Christmas starts for many on 22 December with the El Gordo lottery draw , Catalan children feed and then beat the Tió de Nadal log until it 'gives' sweets, and the big present day is 6 January, when the Three Kings bring gifts: .
In March Valencia's Fallas fill the streets with firecrackers and end by burning giant figures on the night of 19 March: . is La Tomatina in Buñol, the tomato fight held at the end of August; is also Sant Joan's bonfires on 23 June. Holy Week, Semana Santa, is for its candle-lit processions, is carnival in Cádiz and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and is the April Fair in Seville.
On 23 April, Sant Jordi, Catalans give each other a rose and a book; the same date is World Book Day, partly in memory of Cervantes. is the Camino de Santiago, the pilgrimage walk to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, whose sign is the scallop shell.
Spain football emoji and other sports
with is the most pasted Spain emoji combo of all. The men's team, La Roja, won the World Cup in 2010 and the European Championship in 1964, 2008, 2012 and 2024, and the women's team won the World Cup in 2023: . is the Bernabéu and the Camp Nou, and El Clásico between Real Madrid and Barcelona can be written in the clubs' colours, .
is Rafael Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz and also padel, which has no emoji of its own and is hugely popular in Spain. is the national basketball team, world champions in 2006 and 2019, MotoGP, Fernando Alonso, La Vuelta and Miguel Induráin, and Seve Ballesteros and Jon Rahm.
How to type ñ, accents and the euro sign in Spain
Spain's main language is Spanish (about 47 million speakers, a CLDR estimate), and it needs ñ, the acute-accented vowels á é í ó ú, ü (pingüino, vergüenza) and the opening marks ¿ and ¡: '¿Qué tal?', '¡Olé!'. The accent can change a word completely, and año (year) without its tilde becomes ano (anus). Spanish quotes with « » first, then “ ”, and writes ordinals with º and ª: 1.º, 2.ª. Galician uses the same accented letters; Basque needs only ñ beyond A–Z. Our Spanish, Galician and Basque letter collections cover each in full.
Catalan, with about 8 million speakers in Catalonia, Valencia (where it is called Valencian) and the Balearic Islands, writes its own grave accents à è ò, ç (plaça), ï (veïna) and the middle dot · of l·l (col·legi). The Catalan collection lists its whole alphabet.
The Spanish keyboard has its own Ñ key, an accent key right next to it, a ¿¡ key and an º ª key in the top left corner. On a US keyboard in Windows, hold Alt and type 164 for ñ, 165 for Ñ, 160, 130, 161, 162, 163 for á é í ó ú, 168 for ¿, 173 for ¡ and 0128 for . On a Mac: OptionN then N for ñ, OptionE then the vowel for an acute accent, OptionShift? for ¿, Option1 for ¡ and OptionShift2 for . On a phone, hold N or a vowel and pick the letter.
Spain pays in euros ( on the emoji keyboard) and writes the sign after the amount with a decimal comma: 9,99 . Before the euro arrived in cash in 2002 it was the peseta, with its own sign , usually written Pts; one euro was worth 166.386 pesetas.
How to use them
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- is one of the ten original flag emoji: Spain's flag was already in the Japanese phone emoji sets that Unicode took over in 2010, years before the other countries got theirs.
- uses the code EA, reserved for Ceuta and Melilla, and the code IC for the Canary Islands. Neither is an ordinary country code, yet both work as flag emoji.
- The black bull silhouettes along Spanish roads were created to advertise Osborne's Veterano brandy. When a law banned roadside advertising, the lettering was painted out and the bulls themselves were allowed to stay as part of the landscape.
- Spain has its own currency sign in Unicode, for the peseta, which was replaced by the euro . One euro was fixed at 166.386 pesetas.
- On Spain's 10, 20 and 50 cent euro coins you can see Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, and on the 1, 2 and 5 cent coins the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
Questions fréquentes
7How do I copy and paste the Spain flag emoji?
Tap in the grid to copy it and paste it anywhere. The Canary Islands and Ceuta and Melilla flags are next to it.
Why does the Spain flag emoji show as ES?
is made of two letters, and . Windows has no country flag pictures, so it shows the letters ES; on phones and Macs the same emoji appears as the flag.
Is there a Catalonia flag emoji?
No. Only England, Scotland and Wales have standard regional flag emoji. People use hearts in the senyera's colours, , or the Spanish flag .
Is there a paella emoji?
Yes: shallow pan of food. Its official name is general, but it is drawn as a wide pan of rice and used for paella everywhere.
What is the flamenco emoji?
woman dancing. Apple draws her in a red dress that looks like a flamenco dancer, so people use her for flamenco, salsa and any night out; is the male dancer.
How do I type ñ on a keyboard?
On Windows hold Alt and type 164 (ñ) or 165 (Ñ). On a Mac press OptionN, then N. On a phone hold N and choose ñ. Or copy it from the grid.
What is the currency symbol of Spain?
The euro sign , written after the amount in Spain: 20 . Before 2002 Spain used the peseta, whose sign was .
