🗺️ World map emoji

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.

World maps are fundamental to education, travel planning, and understanding global patterns in climate, culture, and commerce. This emoji often appears in discussions about international travel, global events, and geographic education, representing both the practical tool for navigation and the conceptual framework for understanding world relationships.

In broader contexts, this emoji can represent planning, global thinking, and the perspective needed to see connections across vast distances. It embodies the human desire to understand and organize the complexity of our world into comprehensible formats.

Could also be called World atlas, global map, Earth map or geographical chart emoji.

Other meanings

Global perspective, travel planning, geographic education, world navigation, international awareness

Example Usage

Planning our round-the-world travel route on the map 🗺️

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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.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.