🇮🇴 Flag: British Indian Ocean Territory emoji

What flag is 🇮🇴?

🇮🇴 is the flag emoji for British Indian Ocean Territory.

What does 🇮🇴 mean?

🇮🇴 is officially named flag: British Indian Ocean Territory. It represents British Indian Ocean Territory as the Unicode CLDR region identified by IO, 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. Related flag pages include 🇮🇳 Flag: India and 🇮🇶 Flag: Iraq.

Other meanings

Beyond a literal label for British Indian Ocean Territory, 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 British Indian Ocean Territory 🇮🇴

Today’s update concerns British Indian Ocean Territory 🇮🇴

More details

Officially named flag: British Indian Ocean Territory. Its regional-indicator sequence is U+1F1EE U+1F1F4, spelling region code IO. It was introduced in Emoji 2.0.

Related emoji

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Visual description

On supporting platforms, 🇮🇴 is drawn as white with six wavy blue horizontal stripes; the UK flag is in the upper-left quadrant; the striped section has a palm tree and yellow crown (the territory's symbols) centered on the right half of the flag.

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 IO 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.