The world map emoji is your pocket-sized atlas: a flat, poster-style snapshot of Earth that screams wanderlust, gap-year bragging rights, and “we’re going global” energy. People drop it to announce trips, tease international releases, compare time zones like chaotic air-traffic controllers, or ask the classic group chat icebreaker: where’s everyone from? It also lands with big-picture vibes—strategy decks, climate talk, or that startup claiming global domination after getting its first user in another country. Used ironically, it’s perfect for when someone is “so lost” in the convo you might as well hand them a map.
On Apple devices, it looks like a crisp rectangular map with ocean-blue seas and leaf-green continents, framed by a thin white border and shown at a slight tilt—clean, label-free, and instantly classroom-wall familiar. There’s no text or pins—just the recognizable world silhouette, giving it that minimalist poster aesthetic that fits travel posts and vision boards alike. It shows up flirty (“fly me out?”), dramatic (“plotting the takeover”), or wholesome (bucket list check-ins and study abroad updates). Expect nostalgic flashbacks to scratch-off travel maps, classroom pull-down charts, Risk nights, and Carmen Sandiego chases—basically, geography class meets Instagram explore page.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1536 of 2393 |
| Google Android Picture | ![]() |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :map: |
| Keywords |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Map Symbol |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 Code |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🗺 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🗺 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🗺 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🗺 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f5fa |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F5FA |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128506 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x97 0xBA |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 97 BA |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 227 272 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDDFA |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dddfa |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56826 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F5FA |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F5FA |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128506 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F5FA" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x97\xba" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDDFA" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🗺️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🗺️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🗺 ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🗺 ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f5fa, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F5FA, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128506, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x97 0xBA, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 97 BA, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 227 272, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDDFA, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dddfa, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56826, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F5FA 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F5FA, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128506, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F5FA\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x97\xba\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDDFA\uFE0F" |