World Map
🗺️ is the world map emoji, part of Unicode's Travel & Places group, added in Emoji 0.7 (2014).
Where place-map emoji usually appear
DBEmoji editorial interpretationApplies to every emoji in this Unicode subgroup, not only this one.
- Travel, geography, and international posts
Technical details
Source: Unicode Consortium- Unicode name
- WORLD MAP
- CLDR short name
- world map
- Codepoint
- U+1F5FA U+FE0F
- Hex
- 1F5FA FE0F
- Emoji version
- 0.7
- Unicode version
- 7.0
- First released
- 2014
- Unicode group
- Travel & Places
- Unicode subgroup
- place-map
- Status
- Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)
Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built
GitHub shortcode
From GitHub's own emoji list (gemoji). Slack, Discord and other apps keep separate lists, so a code may differ there.
:world_map:Keywords
Source: Unicode CLDRmap · world
Tags
How it looks
Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)
Download as image
Renders 🗺️ with your system emoji font into PNG, WebP, or SVG. Pick a pixel size, then download.
Note: PNG and WebP use the emoji font installed on your device (Apple Color Emoji on macOS/iOS, Segoe UI Emoji on Windows, Noto Color Emoji on Android/Linux), so the look matches your platform. SVG embeds the character as text — rendering depends on the viewer.
Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork
Download Microsoft's official Fluent rendering of 🗺️. SVG files are vector (scales to any size); the 3D PNG is 256×256.
Questions people ask
- What does the 🗺️ world map emoji mean?
- 🗺️ is the world map emoji, part of Unicode's Travel & Places group, added in Emoji 0.7 (2014).
- What is the Unicode codepoint for 🗺️?
- U+1F5FA U+FE0F: the character U+1F5FA (WORLD MAP) followed by U+FE0F, variation selector-16, which asks for the colour emoji form. Without U+FE0F many systems draw U+1F5FA as a plain text symbol.
- When was the 🗺️ world map emoji released?
- It was added in Emoji 0.7, published in 2014, alongside Unicode 7.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
- How do I type 🗺️ on my phone or computer?
- On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “world map”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 🗺️ from this page with one click.
- What is the shortcode for 🗺️?
- On GitHub, type :world_map: and it turns into 🗺️ — that code comes from GitHub's own emoji list. Slack, Discord and other apps keep their own shortcode lists; many codes match GitHub's, but check the app's emoji picker to be sure.