A flag for Antarctica, the frozen continent at the South Pole. Antarctica has no official flag and no country owns it, so the emoji usually shows a white outline of the continent on blue.
Scientists, expedition cruisers and penguin fans post ๐ฆ๐ถ with ๐ง and ๐ง. It also works as a joke for brutal cold: "my office is basically ๐ฆ๐ถ".
Several countries claim parts of Antarctica, but a treaty sets the continent aside for peaceful research, which is why there is no national flag here.
Facts
Flag: Antarctica ๐ฆ๐ถ is an emoji in the flags category, under country flag. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 2.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :antarctica: or :flag_antarctica:. People also look for it with words like โAQโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
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