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by yenwodyah 1489 days ago
This is incorrect. Most flag emoji are based off of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2[0], which will continue to be updated. The Unicode Consortium’s decision to not accept new flags refers to flags outside that standard, like the pride flag or the flags of subnational regions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2