Flag: Bouvet Island

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Shortcode
:bouvet_island:
Shortcode
:flag_bouvet_island:
Unicode
U+1F1E7 U+1F1FB
HTML
🇧🇻
CSS
\1F1E7\1F1FB
JavaScript
"\u{1F1E7}\u{1F1FB}"
URL
%F0%9F%87%A7%F0%9F%87%BB

BVflag

What ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ป means

The flag code for Bouvet Island, an uninhabited, ice-covered Norwegian island in the far South Atlantic. It uses Norway's flag, so the emoji looks like ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด.

Nobody lives there, so real-world use is rare. Geography fans, trivia posts and flag collectors use ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ป, often as an example of one of the most remote islands on Earth.

It sits in the cold ocean far from any inhabited land, and its surface is almost all glacier.

Facts

Flag: Bouvet Island ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ป 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 :bouvet_island: or :flag_bouvet_island:. People also look for it with words like โ€œBVโ€ or โ€œflagโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)

Design history

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. flag: Bouvet Island, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

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