🇻🇬 British Virgin Islands Flag Emoji

The British Virgin Islands flag emoji 🇻🇬 shows a blue ensign with a Union Jack in the corner and a coat of arms with a woman holding a lamp. Tap the copy button to paste it into any chat, post or document.

How the British Virgin Islands flag emoji looks on different platforms

Windows does not draw country flag emoji: it shows the two letters VG instead. Emoji images: Twemoji (CC BY 4.0), Noto Emoji (Apache 2.0), OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0).

What the British Virgin Islands flag emoji means

The British Virgin Islands flag emoji is used for sailing, yacht charter and Caribbean holiday posts. The flag is a blue ensign with the territory's coat of arms, showing Saint Ursula and eleven oil lamps. The islands are a British Overseas Territory, with Road Town as the capital. Territory Day on 1 July marks the 1967 grant of a new constitution, and the Emancipation Festival in early August is the main summer celebration.

How to type the British Virgin Islands flag emoji

On iPhone and Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for "Virgin Islands" or "flag", then pick 🇻🇬. On a Mac, press Ctrl+Cmd+Space and search the same way. On Windows, press Win + . to open the emoji panel, but note that Windows does not draw country flags and shows the two letters VG instead.

The emoji is not a single image. It is made of two regional indicator letters, V and G, and devices that support flags combine them into one symbol.

Popular combinations

🇻🇬⛵ — yacht charters
🇻🇬🏝️ — Jost Van Dyke and beach bars
🇻🇬🇬🇧 — a British Overseas Territory
🇻🇬🤿 — diving the wreck of the RMS Rhone

British Virgin Islands flag emoji codes

Unicode	`U+1F1FB U+1F1EC`
HTML entity	`🇻🇬`
CSS	`\1F1FB\1F1EC`
JavaScript / JSON	`\ud83c\uddfb\ud83c\uddec`
Python	`\U0001F1FB\U0001F1EC`
Shortcode	`:flag_vg:`
Made of	regional indicator symbol letter V + regional indicator symbol letter G
Emoji version	Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 6.0 (2010)