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Which landmarks have their own emoji
Only a few emoji show one real place. Most of them come from Japan, because the first emoji were made for Japanese phones. All but the Kaaba came in 2010. The Kaaba came in 2015.
| Emoji | Official name | Where it is | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statue of Liberty | New York City | United States | |
| Tokyo tower | Tokyo | Japan | |
| mount fuji | Honshu island | Japan | |
| map of Japan | The whole country | Japan | |
| moai | Rapa Nui (Easter Island) | Chile | |
| kaaba | Mecca | Saudi Arabia |
There is no emoji for the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, the Taj Mahal or the Great Wall. Many people use the Tokyo Tower ๐ผ for Paris. It was built in 1958 and was modeled on the Eiffel Tower, so the two look alike. Others use a general emoji, like the classical building ๐๏ธ for Rome or Athens, or the country flag.
How to write a trip caption with emoji
Most trip captions use one of these patterns:
- A route: where you start, how you travel, where you go. ๐ โ๏ธ ๐๏ธ
- A day list: Day 1 ๐๏ธ, Day 2 ๐๏ธ, Day 3 ๐
- One emoji at the end of a normal sentence: Back home after two weeks in Japan ๐ป
Keep it short. Screen readers read the name of every emoji out loud, so ten emoji in a row become a long list of words.
Vehicles from bikes to rockets
The picker sorts vehicles into land, water and air, the same way Unicode does. A few cars and buses come twice: once from the side and once coming toward you. They are easy to mix up.
| From the side | Coming toward you | Added |
|---|---|---|
| automobile | oncoming automobile | 2010 and 2014 |
| bus | oncoming bus | 2010 and 2014 |
| police car | oncoming police car | 2010 and 2014 |
| taxi | oncoming taxi | 2010 and 2015 |
Use the side view for a trip or a road. Use the front view when something is coming at you, like a bus you are about to miss.
Some emoji in the vehicle groups are not vehicles at all. The fuel pump โฝ, the stop sign ๐ and the traffic lights ๐ฅ ๐ฆ sit with the cars. The seat ๐บ and the satellite ๐ฐ๏ธ sit with the planes.
Where are the flag emoji?
Flags are in the picker too. Click the Flags button or search for a country name. Unicode keeps them in their own group, but most people use them for travel.
A country flag is not one character. It is two special letters called regional indicators. The letters are the country's two letter code, so ๐ฏ and ๐ต together make the flag of Japan ๐ฏ๐ต.
| Part | Character | Code |
|---|---|---|
| Regional indicator J | ๐ฏ | U+1F1EF |
| Regional indicator P | ๐ต | U+1F1F5 |
| Result: flag of Japan | 2 characters |
If your device has no picture for the pair, it shows the two letters: J P.
Windows is the big exception. Its emoji font has no country flags, so on most Windows computers you see two letters instead of a flag. The person you send it to on a phone will still see the flag. England, Scotland and Wales use a longer sequence of hidden tag characters, which is why fewer devices show them.
Need the weather for your trip? Sun, rain and snow are on the nature emoji page. Clocks and calendars are with the object emoji, and local dishes are with the food emoji. To learn how emoji are made and who adds new ones, start at the emoji picker.
More for your trip
- Plants and weather๐ธ ๐ป ๐ต ๐ ๐Flowers, trees, sun, rain and stars.
- Things and objects๐ฑ ๐ป ๐ก ๐ ๐ฐPhones, books, money and tools.
- Space drawings-(O)-Rockets, planets and the moon in text.
- Add emoji to a sentencesee ๐ you soon ๐The emoji translator puts an emoji after each matching word.