The flag: French Southern Territories emoji reps TAAF—France’s ultra-remote specks in the southern Indian Ocean (think Kerguelen, Crozet, Saint‑Paul & Amsterdam) plus an icy Antarctic claim. Online, it’s the go-to for “middle-of-nowhere energy,” scientist-core posts, or joking that you’re disappearing off the grid where penguins outnumber people and the wind has main-character syndrome. It pops up in geography flexes, climate/ocean research threads, and memes like “BRB relocating to Kerguelen to avoid this group chat.” Baguette meets blizzard—c’est la vibe.
On Apple/iOS, it shows a deep navy flag rippling on a slim silver pole, with a tiny French tricolor in the top-left canton and a bold white TAAF monogram accompanied by five stars on the fly side (Southern Cross vibes). The dark-blue field and those crisp white shapes are super recognizable when you zoom in, even if you couldn’t find the islands without three PhDs and a sturdy parka. People also deploy it sarcastically to announce digital ghosting, GeoGuessr victories, or the “I live so far south my Wi‑Fi taps out” mood. On some older or limited platforms it may fall back to a plain French tricolor or generic TF rendering, which only adds to its mysterious, niche-internet aura.
This flag represents the country of French Southern Territories.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1425 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 TF French Southern Territories |
| 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) | 1f1f9, 1f1eb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F9, U+1F1EB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127481, 127467 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB9, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B9, F0 9F 87 AB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 271, 360 237 207 253 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF9, 0xD83C 0xDDEB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf9, d83cddeb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56825, 55356 56811 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F9 0x0001F1EB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F9, 01F1EB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127481, 127467 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F9\U0001F1EB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb9\xf0\x9f\x87\xab" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF9\uD83C\uDDEB" |
