🗺️ World map emoji
HTML
🗺
Unicode
U+1F5FA
What is 🗺️ called?
🗺️ is called the World map emoji.
Also known as map of the world, world atlas map, or global map. These terms reflect common wording, regional usage, or how the symbol looks; Unicode’s official name is world map.
What does 🗺️ mean?
🗺️ is officially named world map. A flat representation of Earth's continents and oceans spread across a rectangular surface, representing global perspective, international awareness, and the challenge of displaying a spherical world on flat surfaces. The world map emoji symbolizes travel planning, geographic education, and the comprehensive view needed to understand global relationships and distances.
Use it for literal references to world map and for global perspective, travel planning, geographic education, world navigation, international awareness. It is a flat world map, unlike the three-dimensional globe emoji; political borders vary or may be absent. Related choices include 🌐 Globe with meridians and 🗾 Map of japan.
Other meanings
It can mean global perspective, travel planning, geographic education, world navigation, international awareness. Context determines whether the message is literal, geographic, travel-related, cultural, historical, or symbolic.
Example Usage
Planning our round-the-world travel route on the map 🗺️
The place or travel note mentions world map 🗺️
More details
Officially named world map. Its code point is U+1F5FA. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0.
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Visual description
A flat, rectangular map showing all continents and oceans of the world, typically in a projection that displays the entire Earth's surface.
It is a flat world map, unlike the three-dimensional globe emoji; political borders vary or may be absent. Colours, proportions, orientation, and fine details vary by platform.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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