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 ๐ณ๐ด.
Nobody lives there, so real-world use is rare. Geography fans, trivia posts and flag collectors use ๐ง๐ป, 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 ๐ง๐ป 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 โBVโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
Design history
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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