This emoji pulls up as the Norwegian flag, because Bouvet Island—aka the world’s most remote speck of land—is a Norwegian territory with no distinct flag and zero permanent residents. Online, it’s the ultimate shorthand for “middle of nowhere” energy: perfect when you’re ghosting, going off-grid, or joking that your delivery ETA is coming from the literal ends of the Earth. It’s also a geo-nerd flex; drop it in a comment and watch map enthusiasts appear like penguins at a fish buffet.
On Apple/iOS, expect a crisp red rectangle with a deep navy Nordic cross outlined in bright white, slightly offset to the left and shown as a gently waving panel with subtle shading. No crests, no extras—just clean Scandinavian vibes that scream “Norway, but make it subantarctic.”
People use it sarcastically as a location tag (“BRB, moving to Bouvet”), to dramatize how unreachable someone is, or to add icy, expedition-core flair to travel posts. It also pops up in meme threads about remote work taken too literally, extreme introvert retreats, or when someone’s playlist is so obscure it must’ve been recorded on a glacier.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1962 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) | 1f1e7, 1f1fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E7, U+1F1FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127463, 127483 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A7, F0 9F 87 BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 247, 360 237 207 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE7, 0xD83C 0xDDFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde7, d83cddfb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56807, 55356 56827 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E7 0x0001F1FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E7, 01F1FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127463, 127483 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E7\U0001F1FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa7\xf0\x9f\x87\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE7\uD83C\uDDFB" |
