The Earth turned to show Asia and Australia. It means the world in general, and it is the natural pick for people in Asia and Oceania.
Travel across Asia, time zones and global events use it. Climate posts pair it with ๐ก๏ธ or ๐ฅ. Australians and New Zealanders often add it to 'from down under' posts.
Its siblings ๐ and ๐ show the other halves of the planet.
Facts
Globe showing Asia-Australia 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 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :earth_asia: or :globe_showing_asia_australia:. People also look for it with words like โAsiaโ, โAsia-Australiaโ, โAustraliaโ, or โearthโ.
Timeline
2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
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.