🇧🇱 flag: St. Barthélemy Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the flag: St. Barthélemy Emoji 🇧🇱 Mean?

As a French overseas collectivity, St. Barthélemy primarily flies the French tricolor — blue, white, and red vertical bands — though local symbols exist informally. The emoji on most platforms shows the tricolor with regional indicators BL.

St. Barts, as it's commonly known, is the tiny upscale Caribbean island famous for luxury yachts, celebrity vacations, and gorgeous beaches like Gouverneur and Saline. The emoji appears in jet-set vacation posts, New Year fireworks recaps from Gustavia harbor, and yacht-life captions.

Coded in Unicode 6.0 from BL, it pairs with sailboat, champagne, and sunset emojis. Travelers tag it with photos of red-roofed villas perched over turquoise water. The island was briefly Swedish in the 18th–19th centuries — Gustavia is named for King Gustav III — and that heritage still shows in some local symbols.

Locals affectionately blend Caribbean and Norman French heritage, and the island's small population (under 10,000) keeps things intimate. New Year's Eve, when superyachts gather in Gustavia harbor, generates the most flag emoji usage worldwide for this tiny territory.