British Virgin Islands flag emoji 🇻🇬
🇻🇬 is the flag of British Virgin Islands, ISO code VG. Copy it here.
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About the British Virgin Islands flag emoji
The British Virgin Islands flag emoji 🇻🇬 shows a Blue Ensign with the coat of arms, St Ursula in green holding a lamp between eleven lamps. Under the hood, VG is the regional indicator symbols V G; the British Virgin Islands flag appears whenever V and G are displayed together. Windows has no flag artwork, so there VG appears as the letters V G. British Virgin Islands (VG) joined the flag set in Emoji 1.0 (2015); VG renders on every major platform except Windows. Copy VG from the card; the flag emoji hub groups British Virgin Islands with the other Caribbean flags, such as Barbados, listed beside British Virgin Islands.
Unicode name: flag: British Virgin Islands · U+1F1FB U+1F1EC · Emoji 2.0 (2015) · group: Flags.
How people use it
- National pride: British Virgin Islands (VG) next to a name, a result or a holiday post, British Virgin Islands style
- Travel: a trip to British Virgin Islands, a photo location, or a “from → to” bio with VG
- Language: VG as shorthand for the language of British Virgin Islands in menus, captions and bios about British Virgin Islands
- Sport: team line-ups, match threads and medal tables for VG, British Virgin Islands
- In other languages: Spanish Islas Vírgenes Británicas, French Îles Vierges britanniques, German Britische Jungferninseln
Compare the options
| Emoji | Name | Use it for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| flag: British Virgin IslandsU+1F1FB U+1F1EC | VG: the British Virgin Islands flag | ISO code VG | |
| flag: BarbadosU+1F1E7 U+1F1E7 | Near British Virgin Islands: code BB | Caribbean, like British Virgin Islands | |
| flag: MontserratU+1F1F2 U+1F1F8 | Near British Virgin Islands: code MS | Caribbean, like British Virgin Islands | |
| flag: GrenadaU+1F1EC U+1F1E9 | Near British Virgin Islands: code GD | Caribbean, like British Virgin Islands |
Tortola and the British Virgin Islands flag
Tortola is the largest and most populated island in the British Virgin Islands, and it is home to the territory’s capital, Road Town. The British Virgin Islands does not have separate flags for each island; instead, a single flag represents the entire territory. That flag is a British Blue Ensign with the coat of arms of the British Virgin Islands on the fly side. The coat of arms features Saint Ursula, the patron saint of the islands, dressed in green and holding a golden lamp, with eleven more lamps arranged around her. These lamps symbolise the eleven main islands of the territory, with Tortola being one of them. When you want to refer to Tortola in a text message or on social media, the British Virgin Islands flag emoji 🇻🇬 is the standard way to do it. It works for travel updates, local pride, or simply marking a location, and it will be understood as referring to the British Virgin Islands as a whole, including Tortola.
Questions people ask
What flag is 🇻🇬?
🇻🇬 is the flag of British Virgin Islands — a Blue Ensign with the coat of arms, St Ursula in green holding a lamp between eleven lamps.
How do I type the British Virgin Islands flag emoji?
Search “British Virgin Islands” in the emoji keyboard’s Flags section, type :flag_vg: in Discord or Slack, or copy VG from this page: it is the regional indicators V and G.
Why does the British Virgin Islands flag show as letters?
Windows has never shipped flag images, so the British Virgin Islands flag becomes the letters V G there; every other major platform draws VG.
Does Tortola have its own flag?
No. Tortola is part of the British Virgin Islands, and the whole territory uses one flag: the Blue Ensign with the coat of arms shown by 🇻🇬. There is no separate Tortola flag emoji.
About this guide
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