Globe showing europe-africa Emoji

Travel

A view of planet Earth centered on Europe and Africa, showing the continents in green and brown against the deep blue of the Atlantic Ocean and the surrounding seas.

Usage Context

Used to represent global events, international travel, environmental causes, or simply to indicate a location outside of the Americas. It is frequently paired with 🌎 or 🌏 when discussing worldwide connectivity or global news.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. It reflects the early push to include more diverse geographical perspectives in digital communication, moving beyond a strictly western-centric view of the world in initial internet mapping tools.

Details

Glyph

🌍

Unicode

U+1F30D

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f30d:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF0D;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Travel

Subcategory place-map

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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