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 Twitter/X

Category Travel

Subcategory place-map

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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