This emoji waves a very niche nautical flex: a deep navy Blue Ensign with the Union Jack tucked in the top-left and a teeny, ornate badge on the right. On Apple/iOS it’s a slightly rippling rectangle—rich blue field, crisp red-white-blue Union Jack, and a microscopic crest that looks like a colorful dot unless you zoom way in. It screams sub‑Antarctic vibes and “yep, still British,” all in one pocket-sized banner.
People drop this flag when they want to evoke icy remoteness, penguin-adjacent adventures, or the ultimate “middle of nowhere” energy. It pops up in travel brags from expedition cruises, nerdy Shackleton nods, and geography quizzes where someone’s clearly farming bonus points. Also prime for sandwich jokes—cue: “Not that kind of sandwich”—and playful threats like “brb moving here to avoid group chats.”
In meme-speak, it’s the perfect reply for “touching grass” when the grass is permafrost, or as an obscure-flag flex that says “I know my atlas better than your explore page.” The visual tells are the navy field, the unmistakable Union Jack canton, and that tiny, unreadable-but-fancy crest on the fly side—classic iOS flag styling for British overseas territories. Cold, remote, a little mysterious, and ideal for posts that need a dash of polar drama.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 963 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| 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 | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Flag of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - 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) | 1f1ec, 1f1f8 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EC, U+1F1F8 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127468, 127480 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAC, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB8 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AC, F0 9F 87 B8 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 254, 360 237 207 270 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEC, 0xD83C 0xDDF8 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddec, d83cddf8 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56812, 55356 56824 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EC 0x0001F1F8 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EC, 01F1F8 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127468, 127480 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EC\U0001F1F8" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xac\xf0\x9f\x87\xb8" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEC\uD83C\uDDF8" |
