🇬🇸 South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands Flag Emoji

The South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands flag emoji 🇬🇸 is the two-letter flag sequence for GS. Tap the copy button to paste it anywhere.

How the South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands flag emoji looks on different platforms

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

What the South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands flag emoji means

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic with no permanent population, only researchers and station staff. The flag is a blue ensign with the territory's coat of arms. The island is known for its wildlife, including king penguins and fur seals, and for Grytviken, where the explorer Ernest Shackleton is buried.

The emoji is rarely used. You will mostly see it in wildlife, Antarctic expedition and polar history posts.

How to type the South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands flag emoji

On iPhone and Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for "South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands" or "flag". On a Mac, press Ctrl+Cmd+Space and search the same way. On Windows, press Win + . to open the emoji panel. Note that Windows shows the two letters GS instead of a flag, because it does not include flag artwork. The emoji is made of two regional indicator symbols, G and S, which platforms combine into one flag.

Popular combinations

🇬🇸🐧 for king penguins on South Georgia
🇬🇸🧊 for glaciers and polar cruises
🇬🇸⛵ for Antarctic expedition voyages
🇬🇸🇬🇧 for the British territory

South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands flag emoji codes

Unicode	`U+1F1EC U+1F1F8`
HTML entity	`🇬🇸`
CSS	`\1F1EC\1F1F8`
JavaScript / JSON	`\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf8`
Python	`\U0001F1EC\U0001F1F8`
Shortcode	`:flag_gs:`
Made of	regional indicator symbol letter G + regional indicator symbol letter S
Emoji version	Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 6.0 (2010)

South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands flag emoji FAQ

Why does the South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands flag emoji show as letters?

Windows does not draw country flag emojis, so 🇬🇸 appears as the letters GS. iPhone, Android, macOS and most browsers on those systems show the flag.

How do I get the South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands flag emoji on Windows?

Copy it from this page and paste it into a chat or document. It will display as GS in apps that use Windows fonts, but other people on iPhone or Android will see the flag. Some apps, such as Discord, draw their own flag images.

Is it the same as the Georgia flag emoji?

No. 🇬🇪 is the country Georgia in the Caucasus. 🇬🇸 is the South Atlantic territory, with the code GS. The US state of Georgia has no flag emoji.

🇬🇸 South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands flag emoji