Stands for Svalbard and Jan Mayen, two Norwegian territories in the Arctic. They use Norway's flag: a blue Nordic cross outlined in white on red.
Used in posts about Longyearbyen, polar bears ๐ปโโ๏ธ, the midnight sun and the seed vault dug into the permafrost. It reads as "the far, far north".
It looks exactly like ๐ณ๐ด, so on its own most readers will see it as Norway.
Facts
Flag: Svalbard & Jan Mayen ๐ธ๐ฏ 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 :svalbard_jan_mayen: or :flag_svalbard_jan_mayen:. People also look for it with words like โSJโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
Design history
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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