🇦🇴 Angolan Flag

This is a national flag from Angola, a country in southwest Africa. The flag surface consists of two parallel rectangles, which are red and black respectively. The middle of the flag surface is half of the gear, which is curved; There is also a wood chopper with the blade facing forward and the handle facing backward. The two cross each other and are displayed in gold. There is a five-pointed star between the arc gear and the wood chopper, which is also golden.

According to the Angolan Constitution, red represents "the blood shed by the Angolan people under colonial oppression, the struggle for national freedom and national defense;" Black expresses the praise of "African continent". The five-pointed star represents internationalism and progress, and the five corners of the star symbolize unity, freedom, justice, democracy and progress; Gears and knives symbolize the unity of workers, peasants and the army, and represent the memory of peasants and soldiers in early armed struggle. Yellow in the national flag is a symbol of national wealth.

This emoji is usually used to represent Angola. Except for the pattern depicted by JoyPixels platform, which is round, all other platforms depict rectangular national flags, and most of them are flying in the wind.