world map Emoji

The world map emoji represents a place, building, mode of transportation, or geographic feature, commonly used in travel planning conversations, location-tagged social posts, or figuratively to signal a trip, vacation, or "getting away" theme.

Category context: The Travel & Places category includes buildings, geographic features, transportation, and sky/weather symbols — frequently used both literally (trip planning, location-sharing) and as visual shorthand for travel-related content and social posts.

Cataloged under Place Map within the Travel & Places category, world map is the 44th of 219 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 0.7 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F5FA.

💡 Good to know: Rendering of geographic and building emoji varies in architectural style between vendors — useful to know if visual consistency matters for your content.