🇬🇸 Flag: South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands emoji

What flag is 🇬🇸?

🇬🇸 is the flag emoji for South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands.

What does 🇬🇸 mean?

🇬🇸 is officially named flag: South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands. It represents South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands as the Unicode CLDR region identified by GS, 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: Greece and 🇬🇹 Flag: Guatemala.

Other meanings

Beyond a literal label for South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands, 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 South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands 🇬🇸

Today’s update concerns South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands 🇬🇸

More details

Officially named flag: South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands. Its regional-indicator sequence is U+1F1EC U+1F1F8, spelling region code GS. It was introduced in Emoji 2.0.

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Visual description

On supporting platforms, 🇬🇸 is drawn as blue with the UK flag in the upper-left quadrant; the islands' coat of arms is centered on the right half of the flag and has a green shield with a golden lion holding a torch; a fur seal is to the left of the shield and a Macaroni penguin to the right; a reindeer appears above the crest, and below the shield on a scroll is the motto LEO TERRAM PROPRIAM PROTEGAT (Let the Lion Protect its Own Land).

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 GS 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.