The flag: Iceland emoji plants a crisp Nordic cross on a deep cobalt-blue field—red cross, clean white outline—presented on iOS as a glossy, gently waving rectangle with no pole in view. The cross sits off-center toward the hoist like other Scandinavian flags, and Apple’s version pops with saturated colors that feel as cool as a glacier and as bold as fresh lava. It’s instantly recognizable in your feed: blue like the North Atlantic, white like snowcaps, and a red streak that screams volcanic energy.
People drop this flag when flexing Reykjavik itineraries, Northern Lights wins, or “I’m soaking in the Blue Lagoon while my phone fogs up” selfies. It also shows up during volcano talk (Eyjafjallajökull flashbacks, anyone?), when someone serves an icy-calm hot take, or to channel Viking-clap hype during football matches—HUH! Expect it in indie-music threads (Björk stans assemble), scenic drone shots of black-sand beaches, and Game of Thrones location nostalgia. The meme move: pairing it with “Iceland is green, Greenland is ice” for that geography mic-drop, or using it ironically when you can’t pronounce the volcano but you still stan the vibes.
Culturally, it evokes sagas, geysers, puffins, skyr, geothermal everything, and a nation that once stunned England at Euro 2016. In texting, it can read as “cool-headed,” “north-core,” or a flirty invite to chase auroras and hot springs. Basically, it’s the digital postcard for land-of-fire-and-ice aesthetics—equal parts cozy sweater and lava flow.
The country of Iceland is represented by this flag.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1260 of 2393 |
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| 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 IS Iceland |
| 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) | 1f1ee, 1f1f8 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EE, U+1F1F8 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127470, 127480 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAE, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB8 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AE, F0 9F 87 B8 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 256, 360 237 207 270 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEE, 0xD83C 0xDDF8 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddee, d83cddf8 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56814, 55356 56824 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EE 0x0001F1F8 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EE, 01F1F8 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127470, 127480 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EE\U0001F1F8" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xae\xf0\x9f\x87\xb8" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEE\uD83C\uDDF8" |
