🇰🇳 flag: St. Kitts & Nevis Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the flag: St. Kitts & Nevis Emoji 🇰🇳 Mean?

A black diagonal band edged in yellow stretches from the lower hoist to the upper fly, with two white five-pointed stars on the black, a green triangle in the upper hoist, and a red triangle on the lower fly. Green represents the islands' fertile lands, yellow honors the year-round sunshine, red stands for the struggle from slavery through colonialism to independence, black symbolizes the African heritage of most citizens, and the two stars represent the two islands and hope and liberty. Adopted at independence from Britain on September 19, 1983.

The emoji shows up during Independence Day, Carnival in St. Kitts (Sugar Mas, December-January), and Brimstone Hill Fortress (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) tourism posts. Coded in Unicode 6.0 from KN, it pairs with sugar-cane, beach, monkey (vervet monkeys are everywhere), and Scotch-bonnet-pepper emojis.

Travelers tag it with Pinney's Beach on Nevis and the St. Kitts Scenic Railway. The federation is the smallest sovereign state in the Western Hemisphere by both area and population.

Alexander Hamilton was born on Nevis, and the island maintains a small museum in his honor, generating extra flag-tagged history posts around the musical's success.