Globe with meridians Emoji

Travel

A stylized globe featuring blue continents and a grid of white longitudinal and latitudinal lines. It represents a satellite view of the planet with a digital overlay, often used to signify connectivity.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to graphic for anything related to the internet, international business, or global travel. Use it when talking about reaching people on the other side of the world or accessing a website, often appearing alongside icons like 💻 or 📡 to emphasize connectivity.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, this icon was specifically designed to serve as a universal signifier for the World Wide Web. Its design draws from early 1990s web iconography, which frequently used grid-covered globes to illustrate the concept of the 'global village' as the internet expanded to a mainstream audience.

Details

Glyph

🌐

Unicode

U+1F310

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f310:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF10;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Travel

Subcategory place-map

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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