🇦🇶 Flag: Antarctica emoji

What flag is 🇦🇶?

🇦🇶 is the flag emoji for Antarctica.

What does 🇦🇶 mean?

🇦🇶 is officially named flag: Antarctica. It represents Antarctica as the Unicode CLDR region identified by AQ, and it can mark the place, its people or teams, travel, location, public events, news, or regional identity.

The sequence can accompany the written place name or stand alone in a location-aware message. The AQ sequence identifies Antarctica, whose flag artwork can vary because the continent has no universally adopted official flag. Related flag pages include 🇦🇷 Flag: Argentina and 🇦🇸 Flag: American Samoa.

Other meanings

Beyond a literal label for Antarctica, it can indicate a personal or family connection, a route or destination, heritage, regional sport, public celebrations, diplomacy, or current affairs. A flag symbol alone does not establish citizenship, residence, or political endorsement.

Example Usage

The itinerary includes Antarctica 🇦🇶

Today’s update concerns Antarctica 🇦🇶

More details

Officially named flag: Antarctica. Its regional-indicator sequence is U+1F1E6 U+1F1F6, spelling region code AQ. It was introduced in Emoji 2.0.

Related emoji

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Visual description

On supporting platforms, 🇦🇶 is drawn as a blue field with a white silhouette of Antarctica on many platforms; Antarctica has no universally adopted official flag, so vendor artwork can use another associated design.

Emoji vendors may simplify coats of arms, seals, text, stars, or other fine details and can vary proportions, shading, wave effects, and corners. Unsupported systems may show the separate regional letters AQ instead.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.

Flag emojis are often drawn as a "wavy rectangle" with flat vertical lines and curved horizontal lines representing a flag in the wind. Some emoji sets use standard rectangles, rectangles with curved corners or circles.