🇨🇨 flag: Cocos (Keeling) Islands Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the flag: Cocos (Keeling) Islands Emoji 🇨🇨 Mean?

A green field carries a yellow palm tree at the hoist, a yellow crescent in the center, and the Southern Cross constellation in gold on the fly. The palm represents the iconic coconut groves that gave the islands their name, the crescent honors the predominantly Malay Muslim population, and the Southern Cross marks the territory's place in the southern hemisphere as part of Australia. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are a remote Australian territory in the Indian Ocean famous for atoll diving and the unique Cocos Malay culture.

The emoji appears in remote-travel posts, diving recaps, and birdwatching threads (the islands are an important seabird breeding site). Coded in Unicode 6.0 from CC, it pairs with palm tree, crab (the coconut crab is famous here), and snorkeling emojis. Few people visit, so its emoji appearances tend to be uniquely interesting.

Charles Darwin visited in 1836 aboard HMS Beagle and used the islands' coral structure to develop his theory of atoll formation. Only about 500 people live on the territory today, divided between West Island and Home Island.