The flag for Western Sahara, a disputed territory in Northwest Africa, has a corollary on the emoji keyboard. Réunion, a small island that is still legally part of France, has its own emoji flag too.

The flag of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime remains the standard emoji design across most, if not all platforms. But a new flag flies over Damascus and the rest of a now-free Syria.

and a flag for the remote island in the English Channel called Sark. Emojipedia, a popular emoji reference site, released sample images a few months ago. Recently, the Unicode Consortium ...