Globe showing americas Emoji

Travel

A view of the Earth from space, focusing specifically on North and South America. The planet is depicted with green landmasses against a blue ocean, rendered as a spherical globe.

Usage Context

Frequently used to represent the Western Hemisphere, travel, international business, or global news. It is often paired with other planetary icons like 🌍 or 🌏 to signal a sense of planetary scale or to emphasize location-based content.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, this icon was developed to provide a quick visual shorthand for geographical regions during the rapid expansion of early mobile messaging. It draws on the imagery of iconic 'Blue Marble' satellite photographs that defined the space-age view of our planet in the late 20th century.

Details

Glyph

🌎

Unicode

U+1F30E

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f30e:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF0E;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Travel

Subcategory place-map

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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