The flag of the Canary Islands, a Spanish region off northwest Africa: white, blue and yellow vertical stripes. It stands for the islands and their people.
Holidaymakers post ๐ฎ๐จ from Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote with โ๏ธ and ๐๏ธ. Canarians use it for regional pride.
The islands are named after the Latin word for dog, not after canaries; the birds take their name from the islands.
Facts
Flag: Canary Islands ๐ฎ๐จ 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 :canary_islands: or :flag_canary_islands:. People also look for it with words like โICโ 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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