The British Virgin Islands flag: a blue ensign with the Union Jack and a green shield showing a woman in white with a row of lamps. It represents the British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.
Sailors and charter guests use it for Tortola, Virgin Gorda's boulders and island-hopping โต. It also appears in finance news, since many offshore companies are registered there.
Its neighbor ๐ป๐ฎ belongs to the United States.
Facts
Flag: British Virgin Islands ๐ป๐ฌ 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 :british_virgin_islands: or :flag_british_virgin_islands:. People also look for it with words like โVGโ 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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