Globe with meridians

A globe covered in lines of longitude and latitude. It means the internet, the web and anything international, more than the physical planet.

Website links, 'available in many languages' and global settings use it. Many apps use a globe like this as the language selector. People also post it with a URL or for 'online' events.

For the Earth itself, 🌍, 🌎 or 🌏 fit better.

Facts

Globe with meridians 🌐 is an emoji in the travel and places category, under place map. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :globe_with_meridians:. People also look for it with words like “earth”, “globe”, “internet”, or “meridians”.

Timeline

1. 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

travel & places · Emoji 1.0