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๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ซ French Southern Territories flag emoji

The French Southern Territories flag emoji ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ซ is the two-letter flag sequence for TF. Tap the copy button to paste it anywhere.

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How the French Southern Territories flag emoji looks on different platforms

๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ซ
Your device
French Southern Territories flag emoji, Twemoji style
Twemoji (X / Discord)
French Southern Territories flag emoji, Noto style
Google Noto (Android)
French Southern Territories flag emoji, OpenMoji style
OpenMoji
Flag of French Southern Territories
Real flag

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

What the French Southern Territories flag emoji means

The French Southern and Antarctic Lands include the Kerguelen and Crozet archipelagos, Saint-Paul and Amsterdam islands, and Adรฉlie Land claims in Antarctica. The flag has a French tricolour canton, the initials T.A.A.F and five stars. There is no permanent population, only research station staff, a few hundred people depending on the season.

The emoji is rarely used. You will mostly see it in polar science, penguin and geography posts.

How to type the French Southern Territories flag emoji

On iPhone and Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for "French Southern Territories" 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 TF instead of a flag, because it does not include flag artwork. The emoji is made of two regional indicator symbols, T and F, which platforms combine into one flag.

Popular combinations

  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿง for penguins and seabirds
  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ”ฌ for research stations
  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ซ๐ŸงŠ for Antarctica
  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท for French administration

French Southern Territories flag emoji codes

UnicodeU+1F1F9 U+1F1EB
HTML entity🇹🇫
CSS\1F1F9\1F1EB
JavaScript / JSON\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddeb
Python\U0001F1F9\U0001F1EB
Shortcode:flag_tf:
Made ofregional indicator symbol letter T + regional indicator symbol letter F
Emoji versionEmoji 1.0 / Unicode 6.0 (2010)

French Southern Territories flag emoji FAQ

Why does the French Southern Territories flag emoji show as letters?

Windows does not draw country flag emojis, so ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ซ appears as the letters TF. iPhone, Android, macOS and most browsers on those systems show the flag.

How do I get the French Southern Territories flag emoji on Windows?

Copy it from this page and paste it into a chat or document. It will display as TF 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 TF the same as the French flag emoji?

No. ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ซ has its own code and on many platforms its own flag, while ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท is the tricolour for France itself.

What does the French Southern Territories flag look like?

The flag of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands has the French tricolour in the canton, often with a white border. In the lower fly, the letters T.A.A.F form a white monogram styled like an anchor, surrounded by five white stars. It was adopted on 23 February 2007.

What do the letters T.A.A.F on the French Southern Territories flag stand for?

T.A.A.F stands for Terres Australes et Antarctiques Franรงaises, the French name of the territory. On the flag the letters form a white monogram stylised to resemble an anchor, which sits among five white stars on the ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ซ flag.

What is the French Southern and Antarctic Lands?

It is an overseas territory of France made up of Adรฉlie Land, the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands and the Scattered Islands. It became an overseas territory in 1955, and before that its islands were attached to the Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies.

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