Each of the 26 modern cantons of Switzerland has an official flag and a coat of arms. The history of development of these designs spans the 13th to the...
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Chronik of 1513. All flags of the Eight Cantons are shown, but the flags of Berne and Uri omit the heraldic animal, showing only the cantonal colours. In addition...
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coat of arms surrounded by the twenty-two cantonal coats of arms. Similar heraldic arrangements representing the Thirteen Cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy...
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This is a list of flags and coats of arms of the municipalities of Switzerland. Appenzell District Bennwil Binningen Birsfelden Blauen Ettingen Gelterkinden...
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Unterwalden (redirect from Canton of Unterwalden)
separate Swiss cantons (or two half-cantons), Obwalden and Nidwalden. The name Unterwalden is first recorded in 1304, as the translation of Latin inter...
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Data codes for Switzerland § Cantons Flags and arms of cantons of Switzerland List of Swiss cantons by GDP List of cantons of Switzerland by elevation Spatial...
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the flag represents. Common design elements of flags include shapes such as stars, stripes, and crosses, layout elements such as including a canton (a...
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modern national flags which are banners of arms are the flags of Austria, Iraq, and Switzerland. The banner of arms is sometimes simply called a banner,...
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of the founding cantons of Switzerland; Switzerland's name is derived from the name of the canton, and the flag of Switzerland from its coat of arms....
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list of flags used in Switzerland. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flags of Switzerland. Flag of Switzerland Coat of arms of Switzerland List of Swiss...
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dominant colors. Flags emblazoned with seals, coats of arms, and other multicolored emblems are sorted only by their color fields. The color of text is almost...
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squares and crosses but no crescents, circles, stars, triangles, maps, flags, coats of arms or other objects or symbols. Charged flags are flags that contain...
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states and 2 observer states of the United Nations, in addition to several de facto states, represent themselves with national flags. National flags generally...
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of administrative division in Switzerland. Each municipality is part of one of the Swiss cantons, which form the Swiss Confederation. In most cantons...
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German-speaking part of Switzerland between the rural cantons (Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Glarus, Zug, Appenzell, Schaffhausen) and the city cantons (Lucerne, Berne...
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official, a flag, coat of arms, and anthem, but various other symbols are used as well to represent the Swiss people. Switzerland currently does not have...
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include the state arms, while the civil versions don't. See Flags of German states. Flags of cities with over 1 million inhabitants: Flag of Amsterdam, Netherlands...
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December 1813, and lengthy discussions about future constitutions were initiated in all cantons of Switzerland. The Tagsatzung (the gathering of delegates...
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Swiss, not as members of a specific canton. For cantons like Vaud, Thurgau and Ticino the Republic was a time of political freedom from other cantons...
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canton of Uri (German: Kanton Uri [ˈuːʁi] ; Romansh: Chantun Uri; French: Canton d'Uri; Italian: Canton Uri) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland and...
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The coat of arms of Bern, along with the associated flag and heraldic colours, are used both by the Swiss city of Bern and by the canton of the same name...
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The flag and coat of arms of Kedah are the state symbols of Kedah, Malaysia. Few distinctions are present between the flag and coat of arms of the state...
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divisions of Switzerland Subdivisions of Switzerland Cantons of Switzerland Districts of Switzerland Municipalities of Switzerland Cantons of Switzerland Districts...
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of the national popular vote and the popular cantonal votes. The Swiss Confederation consists of 26 cantons: *These cantons are known as half-cantons...
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The Canton of Geneva, officially the Republic and Canton of Geneva, is one of the 26 cantons of the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of forty-five municipalities...
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of Tonga – and they worked together to formulate a new flag, coat of arms and national anthem for Tonga. According to Whitney Smith (Flags and Arms across...
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four flags that currently use the colour scheme of blue and yellow, the others being Kazakhstan, Palau, and Ukraine. The dimensions of the Swedish flag are...
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1815 (Swiss Confederacy). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coats of arms of the canton of Valais. Flags and arms of cantons of Switzerland La ville...
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Canton Zugo) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland. It is located in central Switzerland and its capital is Zug. At 239 km2 (92 sq mi) the canton is...
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Since 1848, the Swiss Confederation has been a federal republic of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of federation that goes...
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