The flag: Guadeloupe emoji represents the French Caribbean department of Guadeloupe (country code GP), but here’s the twist: on most platforms—including Apple—it shows the plain French tricolor. So if you were hunting for the popular local banner with the sun and sugarcane, that one’s unofficial and not the default emoji. Result: people often drop this flag and then clarify with “971” (the department code), “Gwadada,” or a palm tree to make the island vibe loud and clear. It’s a tiny rectangle with big Caribbean energy hiding behind a very Parisian outfit.
On social, it pops up in travel brags, beach-bound daydreams, Carnival hype, and Creole pride posts—think palm tree + waves + airplane + this flag equals “see you on island time.” Diaspora users flex it in bios and comments, sometimes alongside music or food shout-outs (zouk playlists, gwoka drums, bokit runs, and rhum agricole confessions). It can be playful or sarcastic: “Me after two emails: moving to Guadeloupe 🇬🇵✈️🌴” even though the icon looks just like France’s. Sports days, cultural festivals, and family reunion threads? Expect a burst of this flag plus #971.
On Apple/iOS, the design is a clean, slightly glossy rectangle with vertical blue, white, and red stripes—no crest, no sun, no cane, no pole—just soft shading and rounded corners that make it look like a gently lit fabric tile. Visually, it’s indistinguishable from the France emoji unless your caption gives it Caribbean context. That “wait, that’s France” moment is part of its online personality—and the reason people often pair it with palm trees, volcano mentions (La Soufrière), or “Antilles françaises” to land the point.
The country of Guadeloupe is represented by this flag.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1493 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters GP Guadeloupe |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - 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, 1f1f5 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EC, U+1F1F5 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127468, 127477 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAC, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB5 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AC, F0 9F 87 B5 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 254, 360 237 207 265 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEC, 0xD83C 0xDDF5 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddec, d83cddf5 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56812, 55356 56821 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EC 0x0001F1F5 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EC, 01F1F5 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127468, 127477 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EC\U0001F1F5" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xac\xf0\x9f\x87\xb5" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEC\uD83C\uDDF5" |
