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Flag: Clipperton Island 🇨🇵

Added in Emoji 2 · Flags Country Flags

Codepoint U+1F1E8 U+1F1F5
Shortcode :clipperton_island:
Version Emoji 2

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

Popular Combos

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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.

Keywords

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Technical Reference

Platform Shortcodes

GitHub :clipperton_island:
Slack :flag-cp:
Discord :clipperton_island:

Developer Codes

HTML (decimal)
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HTML (hex)
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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