Flag: Christmas Island

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Shortcode
:christmas_island:
Shortcode
:flag_christmas_island:
Unicode
U+1F1E8 U+1F1FD
HTML
🇨🇽
CSS
\1F1E8\1F1FD
JavaScript
"\u{1F1E8}\u{1F1FD}"
URL
%F0%9F%87%A8%F0%9F%87%BD

CXflag

What ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฝ means

The flag of Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. It is split diagonally into blue and green, with the Southern Cross, a golden bosun bird and a map of the island in a gold disc.

Nature fans post ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฝ about the island's yearly red crab migration, with ๐Ÿฆ€. Its name makes it a tempting pun in festive messages next to ๐ŸŽ„.

The island got its name because a ship's captain sighted it on Christmas Day, not because of any holiday tradition.

Facts

Flag: Christmas Island ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฝ 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 :christmas_island: or :flag_christmas_island:. People also look for it with words like โ€œCXโ€ or โ€œflagโ€.

Timeline

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

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. flag: Christmas Island, Google (Noto) design from 20152015

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. flag: Christmas 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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