Travel & Places · Emoji 0.7
🗺️World Map Emoji
Usually, it just means “map”. People use it to visually represent a location or to talk about places.
The 🗺️ emoji is a world map.
- Unicode
- U+1F5FA U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :world_
map: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🗺️ World Map emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 2.
People also look for it as map emoji.
02 — Platforms
World Map emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the world map has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
World Map emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :world_map:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the world map, code point U+1F5FA.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🗺️ World Map emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F5FA when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
World Map emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the world map as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 8 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
World Map emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around world map for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🗺️ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 🗺️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Difference
🗺️ vs 🗾 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: World Map
Code: U+1F5FA U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :world_map:
Usually, it just means “map”.
Unicode name: Map of Japan
Code: U+1F5FE · added 2010
Shortcode: :japan:
It generally means “Japan.”
11 — History
Where the 🗺️ World Map emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F5FA U+FE0F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
World Map was approved as U+1F5FA U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🗺️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ