Heraldry of the world

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Welcome to the largest website on civic heraldry !


Heraldry of the World is a private website which is devoted mainly to civic heraldry, i.e. coats of arms of cities, states, municipalities, countries etc. It also includes an attempt to make a complete catalogue of heraldic (paper based) collector's items, again with the main focus on civic heraldry.


The site was created on January 2009 by amalgamation of my two sites; International Civic Arms (since 1996) and Heraldryshop.biz (since 2004).

The site International Civic Arms was created in 1996 as Nederlandse Gemeentewapens (Dutch civic arms, hence the domain name www.ngw.nl) and went global in 1999. Ever since it has been the largest collection of civic coats of arms ever published. With the exception of a break during 2006-7, it has been growing steadily every month. See here for more history.


Although as much information on the arms as possible will be included, like pictures, meaning and history, often there is just a picture, not a description of the arms, nor a history. Any additional information thus is welcome ! All information is taken from public sources (books, internet) and the sources are always mentioned and credited. Most pictures are scans from books, with the exception of the Dutch civic arms, where all the pictures are made by myself.


Arms of countries, areas or provinces that do not exist anymore, are placed under the country in which the area is situated at this moment (except for the historical provincial arms in Austria-Hungary). For example, cities, which were granted arms during the Russian Empire, are now under the individual countries. Similarly, towns in the former German provinces of Prussia and Posen are placed under Poland, the South African Homelands are under South Africa and Dutch East Indies are under Indonesia.

Afghanistan Germany Panama
Albania Ghana Papua New Guinea
Algeria Gibraltar Paraguay
American Samoa Greece Peru
Andorra Greenland Philippines
Angola Grenada Pitcairn Island
Anguilla Guam Poland
Antarctica Guatemala Portugal
Antigua and Barbuda Guinea Bissau Puerto Rico
Argentina Guinee Qatar
Armenia Guyana Réunion and Mayotte
Australia Haiti Romania
Austria Honduras Russia
Austro-Hungarian Empire Hong Kong Rwanda
Azerbaidjan Hungary Samoa
Bahamas Iceland San Marino
Bahrain India São Tomé e Príncipe
Bangladesh Indonesia Saudi Arabia
Barbados Iran Senegal
Belarus Iraq Serbia
Belgium Ireland Seychelles
Belize Israel Sierra Leone
Benin Italy Singapore
Bermuda Ivory Coast Slovakia
Bhutan Jamaica Slovenia
Bolivia Japan Solomon Islands
Bosnia-Herzegovina Jordan Somalia
Botswana Kazachstan South Africa
Br. Virgin Islands Kenya South Korea
Brasil Kiribati Spain
Brunei Kuwait Spanish West Africa
Bulgaria Kyrgyzstan Sri Lanka
Burkina Faso Laos St. Helena
Burundi Latvia St. Kitts and Nevis
Cambodia Lebanon St. Lucia
Cameroun Leeward Islands St. Pierre et Miquelon
Canada Lesotho St. Vincent
Cape Verde Liberia Sudan
Cayman Islands Liechtenstein Surinam
Central African Republic Lithuania Swaziland
Chad Luxemburg Sweden
Chile Lybia Switzerland
China Macao Syria
Colombia Macedonia Taiwan
Comoros Madagascar Tajikistan
Congo Malaysia Tanzania
Congo (Brazzaville) Malawi Thailand
Cook Islands Maldives Togo
Costa Rica Malta Tonga
Croatia Marshall islands Trinidad and Tobago
Cuba Mauretania Tristan da Cunha
Cyprus Mauritius Tunesia
Czech Republic Mexico Turkey
Denmark Micronesia Turkmenistan
Djibouti Moldova Turks and Caicos
Dominica Monaco Tuvalu
Dominican Republic Mongolia Uganda
East Timor Montenegro Ukraine
Ecuador Montserrat United Arab Emirates
Egypt Morocco United Kingdom
El Salvador Mozambique United States
Equatorial Guinea Myanmar Uruguay
Eritrea Namibia Uzbekistan
Estonia Nauru Vanuatu
Ethiopia Nepal Vatican City
Falkland Islands Netherlands Venezuela
Fiji Neth. Antilles and Aruba Vietnam
Finland New Caledonia Yemen
Føroyar New Zealand Zambia
France Nicaragua Zimbabwe
French Antilles Niger
French Guyana Nigeria
Gabon North Korea
Gambia Norway
Georgia Pakistan
Palau