The Earth turned to show North and South America. It means the planet as a whole, and people in the Americas often choose it as their default globe.
Environmental posts pair it with ๐ or ๐ฑ. It also covers travel across the Americas, global teams and 'around the world' captions.
Picking ๐, ๐ or ๐ is mostly about which side of the world feels like home.
Facts
Globe showing Americas ๐ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under place map. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :earth_americas: or :globe_showing_americas:. People also look for it with words like โAmericasโ, โearthโ, โglobeโ, or โshowingโ.
Timeline
2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.