The flag: U.S. Outlying Islands emoji represents the United States Minor Outlying Islands—those tiny, far‑flung dots like Midway, Wake, Baker, and Palmyra that are technically U.S. territory but feel like the middle of the ocean IRL. Online, it’s the ultimate obscure‑flag flex: a wink that says “technically correct is the best kind of correct,” or a joke about being off the grid, shipping delays, and “sorry, I’m basically on an atoll right now.” It often stands in for remote‑island vibes, aviation/ham‑radio chatter, geo‑nerd trivia, or that meme moment when your ping looks like it’s routing through the Pacific. Fun history tie‑ins pop up too—think WWII references like Midway and Wake—used in a nerdy, respectful, but slightly cheeky way.
On Apple/iOS, this renders identically to the U.S. flag: crisp red and white stripes, a deep navy canton with white stars, shown as a glossy, slightly waving rectangle at a three‑quarter angle, no flagpole in sight. Because there’s no unique national flag for “UM,” most platforms display the Stars and Stripes (and some older/less complete sets may show a “UM” fallback). People drop it as a playful alt to 🇺🇸 when they want “tiny‑speck‑on‑the‑map energy,” to joke about vanishing into the sea, or to caption those “package currently somewhere beyond time zones” tracking screenshots. In group chats, it reads as a sly geography flex, an island‑mode mood, or the digital equivalent of setting your status to Away: Somewhere Wet and Windy.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 996 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 | |
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| Keywords |
| 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) | 1f1fa, 1f1f2 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1FA, U+1F1F2 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127482, 127474 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBA, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB2 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 BA, F0 9F 87 B2 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 272, 360 237 207 262 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDFA, 0xD83C 0xDDF2 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddfa, d83cddf2 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56826, 55356 56818 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1FA 0x0001F1F2 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1FA, 01F1F2 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127482, 127474 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1FA\U0001F1F2" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xba\xf0\x9f\x87\xb2" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDF2" |
