The U.S. Virgin Islands flag: white, with a gold eagle holding arrows and an olive branch, between the blue letters V and I. It represents the US territory of St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix.
Cruise passengers and beach travelers post it from Charlotte Amalie and Trunk Bay ๐๏ธ. Islanders use it for local pride and carnival.
The British territory next door is ๐ป๐ฌ.
Facts
Flag: U.S. Virgin Islands ๐ป๐ฎ 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_virgin_islands: or :flag_us_virgin_islands:. People also look for it with words like โVIโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2018
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