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World Map Emoji 🗺️

A flat map of the world in muted tones, oceans and landmasses laid out the way an atlas page would show them. Trip planning gets the literal use, pins on a map, a route being sketched out, while looser posts borrow it for travel ambition in general, a bucket list rather than one specific flight.

What 🗺️ means

A rectangular map of the world with visible folded creases suggesting that it has been freshly opened. The 🗺️ World Map emoji signifies a marked understanding of the entire world, which is used for travel purposes or even to suggest a philosophical sense of traveling.

How and when to use it

If you're discussing some travel plans with your buddies and you're almost coming to a conclusion, you can use 🗺️ to hype the entire experience. For example, "Woohoo! The world is our scene! 🗺️".
You can also use 🗺️ while posting or reposting some #travelgoals or even just pictures and/or videos from your current/previous vacation.
If you're posting a picture of yourself and the caption needs a quote that aligns with the theme of traveling or just a map, you can use 🗺️. "Life would be so much boring if it came with a map, ain't it? 🗺️".
A map essentially helps the user to find her/his way. So, if you're advising your friend about her career or you're knocking some sense into a buddy's brain about the vast possibilities on the planet, you can use this emoji. Like, "Man, you'll go places 🗺️ don't fkn worry, okay?".
If you're into 'deep captions' you may use 🗺️ while signifying themes such as 'path', 'journey', 'traveling', 'traveler', etc.

Other Names

🗺️ Map
🗺️ Travel Map
🗺️ A Map of the World
🗺️ Atlas
🗺️ Global Mapping
🗺️ Mapping
🗺️ Atlas Map

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › place-map
Codepoints: U+1F5FA U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :world_map: GitHub
Keywords: map, 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.