This one’s a geography-nerd flex: a flag for Ceuta and Melilla, Spain’s two autonomous cities perched on the North African coast. People drop it to rep hometown pride, announce ferry adventures across the Strait of Gibraltar, or to post that “Spain-but-in-Africa” cultural mashup vibe. It shows up in travel threads, football banter, and foodie posts where tapas meets tagine and everyone argues over the best seaside chiringuito.
On Apple/iOS, support can be quirky: it appears in Apple’s glossy, gently waving style on a silver pole, and on many devices it falls back to Spain’s red–yellow–red tricolor with the coat of arms toward the hoist—or even an “EA” placeholder—if a unique design isn’t available. Expect crisp folds, soft lighting, and that 3D cloth sheen that screams mid-breeze aesthetics. If you see the Spanish flag instead of something city-specific, that’s your phone doing the emoji version of “eh, close enough.”
Online, it’s used playfully or ironically—border-run memes, “Schengen in Africa” hot takes, and GeoGuessr victory laps. It can signal travel-brag energy, homesick feels, or “I’m on a 6 a.m. ferry, send caffeine.” Basically, a tiny shout-out to a crossroads where continents, cuisines, and histories collide.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1705 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 | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| 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) | 1f1ea, 1f1e6 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EA, U+1F1E6 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127466, 127462 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAA, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA6 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AA, F0 9F 87 A6 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 252, 360 237 207 246 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEA, 0xD83C 0xDDE6 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddea, d83cdde6 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56810, 55356 56806 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EA 0x0001F1E6 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EA, 01F1E6 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127466, 127462 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EA\U0001F1E6" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xaa\xf0\x9f\x87\xa6" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEA\uD83C\uDDE6" |
