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🗺️World Map Emoji
The world map emoji 🗺️ carries the codepoint U+1F5FA U+FE0F and has been in the standard since Unicode 7.0 (2014). It belongs to Travel & Places → Globes & Maps.
What 🗺️ world map means
Globes and orientation. Unicode encodes three separate Earth characters — 🌍 Europe-Africa, 🌎 Americas, 🌏 Asia-Australia — so people can pick the face that shows their own region, and the choice is often deliberate. 🌐 has drifted almost entirely to the internet: websites, language switchers, anything global. 🗺️ and 🧭 do travel-planning and wanderlust duty.
Unicode tags this one map, world and files it under Travel & Places → Globes & Maps.
Copy variants
world map carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
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+1F5FAworld map
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F5FA U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🗺️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🗺️ | |
| CSS | \1F5FA\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F5FA}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F5FA\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDDFA\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f5fa}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F5FA}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F5FA}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%97%BA%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 97 BA EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DDFA FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Xuu+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128506 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🗺️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “world map”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “map”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f5faand 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 🗺️ world map emoji mean?+
🗺️ is the world map emoji, tagged map, world. Globes and orientation. Unicode encodes three separate Earth characters — 🌍 Europe-Africa, 🌎 Americas, 🌏 Asia-Australia — so people can pick the face that shows their own region, and the choice is often deliberate. 🌐 has drifted almost entirely to the internet: websites, language switchers, anything global. 🗺️ and 🧭 do travel-planning and wanderlust duty.
What is the Unicode code for 🗺️?+
world map is U+1F5FA U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🗺️, in CSS \1F5FA\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F5FA}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🗺️ emoji added?+
world map got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). 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.
Related emojis
More emojis from Globes & Maps in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🗺️ world map.