The Earth tilted to show Europe and Africa front and center, ocean filling the rest of the view. It's the globe most Europeans and Africans reach for when the other two versions don't put their part of the map on screen, and outside of geography it just as often stands in for the planet generally, no particular continent implied.
What 🌍 means
A globe with ocean blue and greenish tints marking the land belonging to Africa and parts of Europe, which can be a synecdoche. The design, colors, and overall finish would slightly vary on different platforms.
The significance of the '🌍 Globe Showing Europe-Africa' emoji lies in its name and design itself. This emoji can also generally suggest the earth, the planet, and the world as a whole.
How and when to use it
- While indicating travel plans to any part of these two continents, you can use 🌍 in the caption or even within a text message.
- If you're a resident of either Africa or Europe and you're posting or reposting something that indicates 'you're my world' or 'my people' and other related clichè, you can use 🌍 in such contexts too.
- Technically speaking, if you wish to denote 'the world world', you'd have to use all three emojis in the globe series aka the 🌍 Globe Showing Europe-Africa emoji, the 🌎 Globe Showing Americas, and the 🌏 Globe Showing Asia-Australia emoji.
- While sharing any informative content, such as a news post, or even something incredibly amazing from Europe and/or Africa, you can use 🌍 in the caption.
- 🌍 can also be used in frameworks that align with themes such as 'global' and 'international' as well.
Other Names
- 🌍 Globe
- 🌍 World
- 🌍 Africa and Parts of Europe
- 🌍 Africa and Europe
- 🌍 Global
- 🌍 International
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › place-map
- Codepoints
U+1F30D- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:earth_africa:- Keywords
- Africa, earth, Europe, Europe-Africa, 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 Europe-Africa or 🐷 Pig Face?
Runs with a crowd
🌍 keeps company in blue emojis and space emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.