What ๐พ๐น means
Stands for Mayotte, a French department in the Comoro archipelago, between Madagascar and Mozambique. Like the rest of France, it officially uses the tricolor.
Mahorais people use it for local pride and news from the island. Visitors tag its lagoon, sea turtles and whale watching ๐.
A local white flag with the island's coat of arms and the name MAYOTTE in red is also flown. The neighboring state of Comoros claims the island, but Mayotte has voted to stay French.
Facts
Flag: Mayotte ๐พ๐น 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 :mayotte: or :flag_mayotte:. People also look for it with words like โYTโ 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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