To the left of these figures is printed the national Coat of Arms of San Marino.

The national symbols of the Bulgarians are the Flag, the Coat of Arms, the National anthem and the National Guard, as well other unofficial symbols such as the Samara flag.

In 1980 the new internationally recognised independent country was renamed for the site, and its famous soapstone bird carvings was retained from the Rhodesian flag and Coat of Arms as a national symbol and depicted in the new Zimbabwean flag.

The Secretary Bird is the national emblem of Sudan as well as a prominent feature on the Coat of arms of South Africa.

The National Anthem is considered by the current Constitution of Brazil, adopted in 1988, one of the four national symbols of the country, along with the Flag, the Coat of Arms and the National Seal.

Three Crowns () is a national emblem of Sweden, present in the Coat of Arms of the Realm of Sweden, and composed by three yellow or gilded coronets ordered two above and one below, placed on a blue background.

The greater national coat of arms as part of the decorations of all the classes of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, goldplated on both sides, bears on its reverse the embossed date " 24.

The three stars stand for the three major ethnic groups of Burundi: the Hutu, the Twa and the Tutsi The three stars also stand for the three elements of the national motto: Unité, Travail, Progrès (" Unity, Work, Progress "), which can be seen on the Coat of arms of Burundi.

The Coat of Arms of the Bahamas contains a shield with the national symbols as its focal point.

File: Standard of the President of the Republic of Seychelles ( 1977-1996 ). svg | Used from 1977-1996, the national flag of 1977, with a yellow border, defaced with a white circle containing the Coat of arms of the Seychelles.

File: Standard of the President of the Republic of Seychelles. svg | Used from 1996, the national flag defaced with the Coat of arms on the upper right corner.

Article 15 of the Constitution of Lithuania, approved by national referendum in 1992, stipulates, " The Coat of Arms of the State shall be a white Vytis on a red field ".

Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is an American national department store retailer for clothes and shoes, with over 450 stores in 45 states and Puerto Rico ( as of 2010 ).

The Serbian Cross is a national symbol of Serbia, part of the Coat of Arms of Serbia, and the flag of Serbia.

As the patron saint of Barbados, Saint Andrew is celebrated in a number of Barbadian symbols including the cross formation of the Coat of Arms, and the nation's national honours system which styles persons as Knights or Dames of St. Andrew.

The Blue Coat School holds a long-standing academic tradition ; examination results consistently place the school top of the local, and near the head of national GCSE and A-level league tables.

The parish is named after the patron saint, Saint Andrew, who is also the basis of the name for Barbados ' highest national award " The Order of Saint Andrew " and also the shape of the cross formed by two sugar cane stalks in the national Coat of Arms of Barbados.

* Australian guns symbolically have the national Coat of Arms engraved on the barrels.

The Latvian national Coat of Arms was formed after the proclamation of an independent Republic of Latvia on November 18, 1918, and was officially adopted on June 16, 1921.

It is the national river of Ecuador, and present of the Coat of Arms

The shooting development program of the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute has successfully published these facts in all major outdoor magazines, many national weeklies and the trade papers.

* 1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987

Both Cardiff Cricket Club and Glamorgan then moved to a new ground at Sophia Gardens on the opposite bank of the River Taff to the Arms Park, following work on the creation of a national rugby stadium, later named the National Stadium.

The Arms Park rugby ground became the permanent home of the Wales national rugby union team in 1964.

Arms control treaties and agreements are often seen as a way to avoid costly arms races which would prove counter-productive to national aims and future peace.

Arms control can even be a way of maintaining the viability of military action by limiting those weapons that would make war so costly and destructive as to make it no longer a viable tool for national policy.

Shortly before independence was granted in 1979, a local competition was held to choose a new national flag, and a design based on the colonial coat of arms was submitted to the College of Arms.

Bush became chief of the Ordnance, Small Arms, and Ammunition Section, with national responsibility for government assistance to and relations with munitions companies.

Citizens ' access to Gen 2 and up is outlawed by adopting International Traffic in Arms Regulations into national legislation.

Rules defined by the Singapore Arms and Flag and National Anthem Act govern the use and display of the national flag.

The flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the only flag of a European country has a star as part of the design of its national flag, besides the flag of the partially recognized Republic of Kosovo, and the stars in the coat of arms of Moldova and in the coronet of the coat of Arms of Croatia, which are shown as inescutcheon in the respective flags.

The Small Arms Survey figures are estimates, based on available national figures and field research in particular countries.

In the Treaty of Versailles ( 1919 ) the winners imposed relatively hard conditions on Germany and recognised the new states ( such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Yugoslavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ) created in central Europe from the defunct German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires, supposedly out of national self-determination.

* 1918 – Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as national flag of the Republic of Estonia.

Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport (), formerly Ülemiste Airport is the largest airport in Estonia and home base of the national airline Estonian Air.

Other countries have also designated the oak as their national tree including England, Estonia, France, Germany, Moldova, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the United States, Wales, Galicia, Bulgaria, and Serbia.

August 20 remains a national holiday in Estonia because of this.

Estonia is divided into fifteen counties (), each led by a county governor ( maavanem ), who represents the national government at the regional level.

The Barn Swallow is the national bird of Austria and Estonia.

The melody of Maamme is also used for the national anthem of Estonia with a similarly themed text, Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm, My Fatherland, My Happiness and Joy ( 1869 ).

After the Estonian War of Independence, Estonia had around 120, 000 M / 1891s in stock, later the Kaitseliit, the Estonian national guard, received some Finnish M28 / 30 rifles, a few modernised variants were also made by the Estonian Armory ;

Throughout the years of prohibition, Lydia Koidula's poem, Mu isamaa on minu arm, with a melody by Gustav Ernesaks served as means of expressing national feelings, and was regarded as an unofficial anthem of Estonia.

The national flag of Estonia () is a tricolour featuring three equal horizontal bands of blue ( top ), black, and white.

It was formally re-declared as the national flag on 7 August 1990, little over a year before Estonia regained full independence.

Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm (" My Fatherland, My Happiness and Joy ") was adopted as the national anthem () of the Republic of Estonia in 1920, and again in 1990.

Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm was officially adopted as the national anthem of Estonia in 1920, after the Estonian War of Independence.

Yet, the people of Estonia could often hear the melody, as Finland's state broadcaster Yleisradio, whose radio and television broadcasts were received in Northern Estonia, played an instrumental version of the Finnish national anthem, identical to this song ( except for an additional repetition of the last verse in the Finnish version ), at closedown every night.

The national parliaments of Estonia and Finland are also called Riksdag in Swedish.

Unlike most national anthems, few of which were composed by renowned composers, the state anthems were composed by some of the best Soviet composers, including world-renowned Gustav Ernesaks ( Estonia ), Aram Khatchaturian ( Armenia ), Otar Taktakishvili ( Georgia ) and Uzeyir Hajibeyov ( Azerbaijan ).

Also very few Finns speak Estonian ( which is not taught in most schools ), a language of the same Finnic language group as Finnish, and national language of Finland's southern neighbour Estonia, although Finnish is popular in Estonia.

University of Tartu is the national university of Estonia ; it is the biggest and highest-ranked university in Estonia.