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Flag: Timor-Leste 🇹🇱
Copy & Meaning
FLAG: TIMOR-LESTE
Flag: Timor-Leste 🇹🇱 Emoji Data
| Emoji | 🇹🇱 |
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| Main Meaning | Flag: Timor-Leste |
| Unicode | U+1F1F9 U+1F1F1
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| Unicode Name | FLAG: TIMOR-LESTE |
Flag: Timor-Leste 🇹🇱 Emoji: Meaning & Usage
The flag of Timor-Leste (East Timor) — the world's first new country of the 21st century, achieving independence in 2002 after a 24-year Indonesian occupation (following Portugal's departure in 1975) and a brutal independence struggle costing over 100,000 lives. Nobel Peace Prize laureates José Ramos-Horta and Bishop Belo won for their independence advocacy.
Used for Pacific decolonization, East Timor independence story, Indonesian colonialism, Nobel Peace Prize history, and the development challenges facing the 21st century's newest nations.