Stands for Wallis and Futuna, a French territory of Polynesian islands in the South Pacific. Its official flag is the French tricolor; the local flag is red with a white cross design and a small French flag in the corner.
Rare in daily chat. Islanders and their families in New Caledonia use it for local pride, and others meet it in geography quizzes.
Facts
Flag: Wallis & Futuna ๐ผ๐ซ 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 :wallis_futuna: or :flag_wallis_futuna:. People also look for it with words like โWFโ 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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