Flag: Greenland

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Shortcode
:greenland:
Shortcode
:flag_greenland:
Unicode
U+1F1EC U+1F1F1
HTML
🇬🇱
CSS
\1F1EC\1F1F1
JavaScript
"\u{1F1EC}\u{1F1F1}"
URL
%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%B1

GLflag

What ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ฑ means

The flag of Greenland: white over red, with a circle split the other way, red on top and white below. It stands for the huge Arctic island, a self-governing territory within the Danish realm.

Travelers post ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ฑ with icebergs, ๐Ÿ‹ and northern lights. Greenlanders use it for national day on 21 June and Inuit culture. It is also common in news and debate about US calls to take control of the island, including posts from Greenlanders and Danes who oppose the idea.

The circle is often read as the sun setting into the sea, or the sun over the ice.

Facts

Flag: Greenland ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ฑ 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 :greenland: or :flag_greenland:. People also look for it with words like โ€œGLโ€ or โ€œflagโ€.

Timeline

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

Design history

Google (Noto)

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

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. flag: Greenland, 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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