The globe-showing-Americas emoji spins the same Earth to bring North and South America into frame. It gets picked constantly for Earth Day posts and environmental messaging, and it's also the version most people in the Americas send by habit, even when the topic is just "the whole world" rather than their own continent specifically.
What 🌎 means
A representation of the earth showing the American continents; North America and South America, with green marking the land and blue, the seas.
The 🌎 Globe Showing Americas signifies the West, in general. It refers to the land, culture, travel, and other aspects of both these continents. It can also be a generic way of referring to the 'world' (not because it implies anything, but because users don't pay attention to details, usually).
How and when to use it
- If you're posting or reposting anything that holds heavy significance only to the west aka Americas, you can use 🌎 in such post captions.
- Use 🌎 while sharing pictures and/or videos from your American vacation; in both, social media posts and text messages.
- Although any of the emojis in the globe series are used while stating 'my world' and other such themes, it would make more sense to use 🌎 if you and that special someone lives here.
- 🌎 can also be a great way to indicate a long-distance relationship. It's a very sweet emoji to use in captions and text messages while wishing your loved one(s) who live in the west while you live elsewhere.
- On a general platform, 🌎 can be used to represent the earth; planet earth, the world, global and international frameworks too (it just acts as a part of the whole, and implies nothing, which is fine).
Other Names
- 🌎 North and South America
- 🌎 American Continent
- 🌎 The West
- 🌎 Western Continent
- 🌎 Americas
- 🌎 Global
- 🌎 International
- 🌎 Planet Earth
- 🌎 The Earth
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › place-map
- Codepoints
U+1F30E- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:earth_americas:- Keywords
- Americas, earth, globe, showing, world
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 — 🌎 Globe Showing Americas or 💦 Sweat Droplets?
Runs with a crowd
🌎 keeps company in blue emojis and space emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.