221 emoji for places and travel — places, vehicles and the sky above them. Tap any character to copy it, or search the whole category by name.
The grid below holds every standard emoji in this category. Click one to copy it to your clipboard; use the search box above if you already know the name.
Travel and places gathers the things that move you and the things you move between: cars, trains, planes, boats, buildings, landmarks, and the weather and scenery around them.
The aeroplane is the most used, usually in one of two senses — an actual trip, or the phrase about being done with something. The house, the map pin and the globe come next.
Unicode gives every emoji an English name. Knowing the name is useful, because it is what the search box matches and what other people use when they describe an emoji to you.
| Emoji | Official name | Usually means |
|---|---|---|
| 🌍 | globe showing Europe-Africa | globe showing Europe-Africa |
| 🌎 | globe showing Americas | globe showing Americas |
| 🌏 | globe showing Asia-Australia | globe showing Asia-Australia |
| 🌐 | globe with meridians | globe |
| 🗺️ | world map | world map |
| 🗾 | map of Japan | map of Japan |
| 🧭 | compass | compass |
| 🏔️ | snow-capped mountain | snow-capped mountain |
| ⛰️ | mountain | mountain |
| | landslide | landslide |
| 🌋 | volcano | volcano |
| 🗻 | mount fuji | mount fuji |
| 🏕️ | camping | camping |
| 🏖️ | beach with umbrella | beach |
| 🏜️ | desert | desert |
| 🏝️ | desert island | desert island |
| 🏞️ | national park | national park |
| 🏟️ | stadium | stadium |
| 🏛️ | classical building | classical building |
| 🏗️ | building construction | building construction |
| 🧱 | brick | brick |
| 🪨 | rock | rock |
| 🪵 | wood | wood |
| 🛖 | hut | hut |
| 🏘️ | houses | houses |
| 🏚️ | derelict house | derelict house |
Every character on this page is a button, and the steps are identical on a phone, a tablet and a desktop:
Nothing is installed and nothing is uploaded. These are standard Unicode characters, so the device you are already holding knows how to draw them.
Ordinary text is safe everywhere. The problems start with two groups: characters that need a font the receiving device may not ship with, and applications that deliberately filter what you can type.
| Place | Works? | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| Instagram, TikTok, X bio and captions | Yes | Symbols and emoji both display; a handful of rare glyphs may render as a box on older Android versions |
| Discord display name and messages | Yes | Almost everything works, including the rarer box-drawing characters |
| WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal | Yes | Full support for emoji and symbols |
| Word, Google Docs, Excel, Sheets | Yes | Fine on a desktop; fonts on older Office installs may miss the newest glyphs |
| Most online games (usernames) | Sometimes | Many titles strip anything outside their font. Test with one symbol first |
| SMS | Yes, but | An emoji can push a message into a longer billing segment |
The practical rule: if you are decorating a bio or a document, paste freely. If you are building a username that has to survive a game login screen, start with one character, confirm it appears, then add the rest.