Stands for the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands, small Pacific and Caribbean islands such as Midway, Wake and Palmyra. They use the United States flag.
Rare in everyday chat. It appears in posts about wildlife refuges, seabird colonies, military history, and the remote spots that ham radio operators try to contact.
It looks the same as ๐บ๐ธ, so most readers will see it as the United States.
Facts
Flag: U.S. Outlying Islands ๐บ๐ฒ 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 :us_outlying_islands: or :flag_us_outlying_islands:. People also look for it with words like โUMโ 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.
flags ยท Emoji 2.0