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 ๐ฎ๐ด. Sovereignty over the Chagos Islands has long been disputed between the UK and Mauritius.
Facts
Flag: Diego Garcia ๐ฉ๐ฌ 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 โDGโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
Design history
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
2018
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
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