Flag: Dominica Emoji
U+1F1E9 U+1F1F2:dominica:About Flag: Dominica 🇩🇲
Flag: Dominica () is part of the Flags group in Unicode. Added in Unicode E2.0. Type on GitHub and Slack to use it. On Discord it's . Click copy above to grab it, paste it anywhere.
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How it looks
What does it mean?
The flag of Dominica: a green field with a cross of three colored bands (yellow, black, and white) and a red disc in the center bearing a sisserou parrot encircled by ten green stars. It's one of only two national flags in the world that feature the color purple, since the parrot's neck plumage has a distinct purple hue. (The other flag with purple is Nicaragua's, hidden in its tiny rainbow within the coat of arms.)
Green represents the island's lush forests; Dominica calls itself the 'Nature Isle of the Caribbean' and it earns the title. The yellow cross symbolizes sunshine and the Carib and Arawak peoples. Black stands for the African heritage of the population. White represents clean rivers and waterfalls. The red disc symbolizes social justice. The ten stars represent the island's ten parishes. And at the center of it all sits the sisserou parrot, Dominica's national bird, which exists nowhere else on Earth.
Online, 🇩🇲 has one overwhelming problem: people confuse it with the Dominican Republic (🇩🇴). Dominica is a small volcanic island in the Windward Islands with a population of about 72,000. The Dominican Republic is a much larger country on Hispaniola with 11 million people. They are not related. This confusion dominates almost every social media thread where 🇩🇲 appears.
🇩🇲 gets the most use on Independence Day (November 3), Creole Day (October 28, part of Creole Heritage Month), and during carnival season. The Dominican diaspora, primarily in the US Virgin Islands, Antigua, the UK, and the US, uses it as an identity marker, especially in Caribbean cultural threads.
The biggest recurring topic on social media isn't a celebration but a correction. When people type 'Dominican flag,' they usually mean 🇩🇴 (Dominican Republic), and 🇩🇲 shows up by mistake or vice versa. Dominicans (from Dominica) spend a notable amount of time online explaining the difference.
Eco-tourism content is the other major context. Dominica has the Boiling Lake (the second-largest hot spring in the world), the Waitukubuli National Trail (the Caribbean's longest hiking trail), and some of the best diving in the region. Travel posts about Dominica tend to emphasize how undeveloped and unspoiled it is compared to neighboring islands.
The sisserou parrot at the center of the flag has purple plumage on its neck. This makes Dominica one of only two countries with purple on their national flag (Nicaragua is the other). Purple was historically the most expensive dye color, which is why it's so rare on flags.
🇩🇲 in the Lesser Antilles
The Dominica emoji palette
Dominica at a glance
- 🏛️Capital: Roseau, on the southwest coast
- 👥Population: ~72,400 (2024 est.)
- 🗺️Area: 750 km² (the most mountainous of the Lesser Antilles)
- 💵Currency: East Caribbean dollar (XCD), pegged at 2.70 to USD since 1976
- 🗣️Languages: English (official); Dominican Creole French (Kwéyòl / Patwa) widely spoken
- 📞Calling code: +1-767
- ⏰Time zone: AST (UTC-4), no daylight saving
- 🌐Internet TLD: .dm
Emoji combos
🇩🇲 in the Lesser Antilles: Google Trends, 2021 to 2026
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Origin story
Dominica's flag tells the story of a small island that puts a rare parrot at the center of its national identity.
The flag was adopted on November 3, 1978, when Dominica gained independence from the United Kingdom. The original design was created by playwright and artist Alwin Bully. The central feature was, and remains, the sisserou parrot (Amazona imperialis), the world's largest species of amazon parrot, found only on Dominica.
The flag has been modified several times. The parrot originally faced left; it was changed to face right in 1981, then redesigned again in 1988 and 1990 to update the parrot's colors and the arrangement of the stars. Despite the tweaks, the core concept has stayed the same: green for the forests, a triple-striped cross for the island's diverse heritage, and the sisserou parrot as an unmistakable symbol of national identity.
The sisserou parrot itself is endangered, with an estimated population of only 250-350 individuals. Hurricane Maria in 2017 destroyed much of its mountain forest habitat, and conservation of the species is a matter of national pride. Losing the sisserou would mean losing the only living creature on a national flag.
The sisserou parrot, close up
Ratio 1:2 · Adopted 1978
Design history
- 1978Dominica gains independence; adopts flag designed by Alwin Bully with the sisserou parrot at center↗
- 1981Parrot direction changed from facing left to facing right
- 1988Parrot design and color details updated
- 1990Further refinements to the parrot illustration and star arrangement
- 2015Included in Emoji 1.0 as regional indicator sequence U+1F1E9 U+1F1F2↗
When 🇩🇲 spikes: Dominica's calendar
- 🎉January 1: New Year's Day: Public holiday.
- 🎭February 16 to 17, 2026: Carnival / Mas Domnik: Pre-Lent carnival. Monday and Tuesday are public holidays. One of the oldest Caribbean carnivals, with strong traditional elements (sensay costumes, bois bois stilt walkers, chanté-mass calypso).
- 🐣April 3 to 6, 2026: Easter window: Good Friday, Easter Monday.
- ⚒️May 1, 2026: Labour Day: Trade union marches in Roseau.
- ☀️May 25, 2026: Whit Monday: Pentecost Monday.
- ✊August 3, 2026: Emancipation Day: First Monday of August. Commemorates the 1834 abolition of slavery.
- 🌺October 25, 2026: Jounen Kwéyòl: Creole Day, same date as Saint Lucia. Kwéyòl dress, traditional food, music, and language celebrated across the island.
- 🇩🇲November 3, 2026: Independence Day: Commemorates independence from the UK on November 3, 1978. Flag-raising, parade.
- 🧹November 4: Community Service Day: A public holiday introduced in 1988 where citizens do civic cleanup work in their home parishes. Unique to Dominica.
- 🎄December 25 and 26: Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
Say it in Kwéyòl
🇩🇲 ranks ~158th among flag emojis globally
Often confused with
This is the single most common flag emoji mix-up in the Caribbean. 🇩🇲 is Dominica, a small volcanic island with 72,000 people. 🇩🇴 is the Dominican Republic, a much larger country on Hispaniola with 11 million people. They have no political connection. The similar names (both derived from Latin 'Dominica,' meaning Sunday) cause constant confusion online.
This is the single most common flag emoji mix-up in the Caribbean. 🇩🇲 is Dominica, a small volcanic island with 72,000 people. 🇩🇴 is the Dominican Republic, a much larger country on Hispaniola with 11 million people. They have no political connection. The similar names (both derived from Latin 'Dominica,' meaning Sunday) cause constant confusion online.
Both flags are primarily green with a central element. At emoji size, the green backgrounds can look similar if the detail in the center doesn't render clearly.
Both flags are primarily green with a central element. At emoji size, the green backgrounds can look similar if the detail in the center doesn't render clearly.
No. Dominica (🇩🇲) is a small island nation in the Windward Islands of the Eastern Caribbean with a population of about 72,000. The Dominican Republic (🇩🇴) is on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles with 11 million people. They are completely separate countries with no political relationship. The name confusion comes from both being named for the Latin word for Sunday.
Fun facts
- •Dominica's flag is one of only two national flags in the world that contain purple. The sisserou parrot's neck plumage has a distinct purple color. Nicaragua's flag is the other, with a faint rainbow (including purple) in its coat of arms.
- •The 'mountain chicken' is not a chicken. It's the giant ditch frog (Leptodactylus fallax), once a staple food in Dominica. A fungal disease has pushed it to critical endangerment, with fewer than 100 thought to remain in the wild.
- •Dominica has 365 rivers, one for every day of the year, as locals like to say. It's the most water-rich island in the Caribbean.
- •After Category 5 Hurricane Maria struck on September 18, 2017, an estimated 90% of structures on the island were damaged or destroyed. The storm hit Dominica with sustained winds of 160 mph and wiped out roads, power, and communications island-wide.
Trivia
For developers
- •🇩🇲 is a regional indicator sequence: (D) + (M). ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code: .
- •Shortcode: or on most platforms.
- •The top-level domain is also used by direct-message themed projects, but its primary use is Dominica.
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