Meaning
Clipperton Island's flag is a simple but striking design featuring a white cross on a blue background. This representation symbolizes the island's geographic and political significance, with the cross marking its position in the ocean. The flag represents one of the world's most remote and least-inhabited territories—a tiny atoll in the North Pacific Ocean roughly equidistant between Mexico, Hawaii, and California.
Clipperton Island is a territorial claim disputed between France and Mexico, making its flag primarily of interest to geopolitical enthusiasts, cartography buffs, and those fascinated by remote island territories. It rarely appears in everyday conversation but shows up in discussions about territorial disputes, island biogeography, or comprehensive flag collections.
You'll encounter this flag among geography nerds, map enthusiasts, and people interested in territorial oddities and remote places. It's sometimes used ironically or in jest by those collecting flags of the world's least-known territories.
Approved as part of Unicode Emoji 2.0 in 2015, this flag represents one of Earth's most obscure inhabited (or barely inhabited) locations, giving digital representation to even the remotest corners of global geography.
Common Uses
- • Discussing remote island territories
- • Exploring geopolitical disputes
- • Collecting flags of obscure places
- • Geography and cartography discussions
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Did You Know?
Clipperton Island is completely uninhabited today, but it once supported a guano-mining colony in the early 1900s—now it's known mainly for its unique marine life and remains a point of territorial dispute between France and Mexico.
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Platform Shortcodes
:clipperton_island: :flag-cp: :clipperton_island: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 🇨🇵 |
| HTML (hex) | 🇨🇵 |
| CSS | \1F1E8\1F1F5 |
| JavaScript | \uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDF5 |
| Python | \U0001F1E8\U0001F1F5 |
| Java | \uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDF5 |
| Perl | \x{1F1E8}\x{1F1F5} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{1F1E8}\x{1F1F5} |
| Punycode | xn--2qco-2qd1 |
| URL Encoded | %F0%9F%87%A8%F0%9F%87%B5 |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA8 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB5 |
🇨🇵 in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | পতাকা: ক্লিপারটন দ্বীপপুঞ্জ |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 旗: 克利珀顿岛 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 旗子:克里派頓島 |
| Danish | Clippertonøen |
| Dutch | vlag: Clipperton |
| English | flag: Clipperton Island |
| English (UK) | flag: Clipperton Island |
| Estonian | lipp: Clippertoni saar |
| Finnish | lippu: Clippertoninsaari |
| French | drapeau : Île Clipperton |
| German | Flagge: Clipperton-Insel |
| Hindi | झंडा: क्लिपर्टन द्वीप |
| Hungarian | zászló: Clipperton-sziget |
| Italian | bandiera: Isola di Clipperton |
| Japanese | 旗: クリッパートン島 |
| Korean | 깃발: 클리퍼턴섬 |
| Lithuanian | vėliava: Klipertono sala |
| Malay | bendera: Pulau Clipperton |
| Norwegian | flagg: Clippertonøya |
| Polish | flaga: Wyspa Clippertona |
| Portuguese | bandeira: Ilha de Clipperton |
| Russian | флаг: о-в Клиппертон |
| Spanish | Bandera: Isla Clipperton |
| Spanish (Mexico) | Bandera: Isla Clipperton |
| Swedish | flagga: Clippertonön |
| Thai | ธง: เกาะคลิปเปอร์ตัน |
| Ukrainian | прапор: Острів Кліппертон |
| Vietnamese | cờ: Đảo Clipperton |