Heraldry of the world
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 | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Argentina | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Armenia | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Australia]] | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Austria | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Austro-Hungarian Empire | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Azerbaidjan | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Bahamas | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Bahrain | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Bangladesh | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Barbados | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Belarus | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Belgium | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Belize | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Benin | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Bermuda | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Bhutan | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Bolivia | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Bosnia-Herzegovina | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Botswana | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Br. Virgin Islands | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Anguilla | Ice cream | 1.00 |
| Georgia | Ice cream | 1.00 |
Brasil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroun
Canada
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Rep.
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo (former Zaire)
Congo (Brazzaville)
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Rep.
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Falkland Islands
Fiji
Finland
Føroyar
France
French Antilles
French Guyana
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Guatemala
Guinea Bissau
Guinee
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazachstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Leeward Islands
Lesohto
Liberia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxemburg
Lybia
Macao
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malaysia
Malawi
Maldives
Malta
Marshall islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia (Fed. States of)
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Neth. Antilles and Aruba
Netherlands
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
North Korea
Norway
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn Island
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Réunion and Mayotte
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé e Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Spanish West Africa
Sri Lanka
St. Helena
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Pierre et Miquelon
St. Vincent
Sudan
Surinam
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tristan da Cunha
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe