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🇬🇱Flag: Greenland Emoji

Unicode added 🇬🇱 flag: Greenland in Emoji 2.0 (2015), filed under Flags → Country Flags. Its codepoint is U+1F1EC U+1F1F1, and it is tagged GL, flag.

Not seeing the flag? Windows has never included country flag glyphs, so Chrome and Edge draw the two letters GL instead of 🇬🇱. Nothing is wrong with the character — copy it and it appears correctly on iPhone, Android and Mac, and in WhatsApp, Instagram and Discord. This page loads a flag font so it draws properly here regardless.

What 🇬🇱 flag: Greenland means

Country flags do identity work: nationality in a bio, a football result, the language somebody is learning, a trip just booked, a dish claimed as local. Each one is a pair of regional indicator letters matching a two-letter ISO 3166-1 code rather than a picture, so a device without the artwork simply shows the two letters. Windows has done this for years.

Unicode tags this one GL, flag and files it under Flags → Country Flags.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How 🇬🇱 is built

This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.

🇬U+1F1ECRegional indicator G
🇱U+1F1F1Regional indicator L

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F1EC U+1F1F1`
HTML hex	`🇬🇱`
HTML decimal	`🇬🇱`
CSS	`\1F1EC\1F1F1`
JavaScript	`\u{1F1EC}\u{1F1F1}`
Python	`\U0001F1EC\U0001F1F1`
Java / C#	`\uD83C\uDDEC\uD83C\uDDF1`
Rust	`\u{1f1ec}\u{1f1f1}`
Swift	`\u{1F1EC}\u{1F1F1}`
PHP	`\u{1F1EC}\u{1F1F1}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%B1`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 87 AC F0 9F 87 B1`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83C DDEC D83C DDF1`
Base64	`8J+HrPCfh7E=`
Decimal	`127468 127473`
Introduced	Emoji 2.0 (2015)

Keywords

GL
flag

How to type 🇬🇱

Windows — press Win + . and search “flag: Greenland”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “GL”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f1ec and Enter.
HTML — paste 🇬🇱.

How 🇬🇱 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

🇬🇱Apple
🇬🇱Segoe
🇬🇱Noto
🇬🇱System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 🇬🇱 flag: Greenland emoji mean?+

🇬🇱 is the flag: Greenland emoji, tagged GL, flag. Country flags do identity work: nationality in a bio, a football result, the language somebody is learning, a trip just booked, a dish claimed as local. Each one is a pair of regional indicator letters matching a two-letter ISO 3166-1 code rather than a picture, so a device without the artwork simply shows the two letters. Windows has done this for years.

What is the Unicode code for 🇬🇱?+

flag: Greenland is U+1F1EC U+1F1F1. In HTML that is 🇬🇱, in CSS \1F1EC\1F1F1, and in JavaScript \u{1F1EC}\u{1F1F1}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🇬🇱 emoji added?+

flag: Greenland got its emoji presentation in Emoji 2.0 (2015). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Emoji 2.0 (2015)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🇬🇱 flag: Greenland.