🇮🇴
What 🇮🇴 means
A rectangular flag with the blue ensign to the top-left corner and a palm tree emerging from a royal crown to the right. The entire flag is covered in wavy navy blue lines, seven, to be precise.
The 🇮🇴 Flag: British Indian Overseas Territory emoji refers to a British Overseas Territory or a BOT belonging to the United Kingdom. It is located in the Indian Ocean and hence the merge of names.
This emoji is shown as 'IO' on some platforms.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇮🇴 Flag of the British Indian Overseas Territory
- 🇮🇴 BIOT Flag
- 🇮🇴 Territorial Code - IO
- 🇮🇴 British Indian Overseas Territory Flag
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1EE U+1F1F4- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:british_indian_ocean_territory:GitHub:flag-io:Slack:flag_io:Discord:io:Discord- Keywords
- flag
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🇮🇴 Flag: British Indian Ocean Territory or 🤥 Lying Face?