🇨🇽 Flag: Christmas Island emoji

The flag of Christmas Island, an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean. The flag features a green and blue background divided diagonally, with the Southern Cross constellation, a golden bosun bird (the island's symbol), and a golden map outline of the island. Green represents the tropical rainforest, blue represents the surrounding ocean, and the elements reflect the island's unique position and natural heritage.

Christmas Island is known for its spectacular annual red crab migration (one of nature's greatest phenomena), unique wildlife, phosphate mining history, diverse cultural communities (including Chinese, Malay, and European influences), and as a detention center for asylum seekers. The island has remarkable biodiversity for its small size.

This emoji is used to represent Christmas Island in discussions about Australian territories, wildlife migration, unique ecosystems, red crab migration, phosphate mining, or when referencing remote island territories and their distinctive natural phenomena.

Could also be called Christmas Island flag, Australian territory flag or Indian Ocean territory flag emoji.

Other meanings

Australian territory, red crab migration, Indian Ocean, unique wildlife, phosphate mining

Example Usage

The red crab migration on 🇨🇽 is an incredible natural spectacle

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Visual description

A rectangular flag with green and blue sections divided diagonally, featuring the Southern Cross stars, a golden bosun bird, and a golden outline of the island.

⚠️ 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.