Flag: Diego Garcia

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Shortcode
:diego_garcia:
Shortcode
:flag_diego_garcia:
Unicode
U+1F1E9 U+1F1EC
HTML
🇩🇬
CSS
\1F1E9\1F1EC
JavaScript
"\u{1F1E9}\u{1F1EC}"
URL
%F0%9F%87%A9%F0%9F%87%AC

DGflag

What ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฌ means

The flag code for Diego Garcia, the main atoll of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean. It hosts a joint UK and US military base, and the emoji usually shows the British Indian Ocean Territory flag.

It appears from service members stationed there and in news about the base. Few people have reason to use it otherwise.

It looks the same as ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ด. Sovereignty over the Chagos Islands has long been disputed between the UK and Mauritius.

Facts

Flag: Diego Garcia ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฌ 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 :diego_garcia: or :flag_diego_garcia:. People also look for it with words like โ€œDGโ€ or โ€œflagโ€.

Timeline

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

Design history

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. flag: Diego Garcia, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016
  2. flag: Diego Garcia, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20182018

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

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