Coat of arms of the Swedish provinces
This list shows the coats of arms of the 21 Swedish provinces ( Län ).
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Blekinge län | In blue a torn golden oak with three golden crowns drawn over the trunk. | ||
Dalarna County | In blue, two diagonally crossed golden darts with silver tips under a golden crown. | ||
Gotland County | In blue a silver, gold-armored and gold-tongued ram holding a red flag on the golden long cross with a golden flight part with the right barrel. | ||
Gävleborg County | In the four- sided coat of arms in the first and fourth fields in silver a running red elk with gold hooves with gold antlers is accompanied by scattered blue balls and in fields two and three in black an upright red-armored and tongued golden goat. Symbol: Moose for Gästrikland and goat for Hälsingland . |
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Hallands Lan | In blue a red armored silver lion Symbol: There are several theories about the origin of the lion. According to one theory, it goes back to Duke Bengt Algotsson in the 14th century, according to the other on the royal coat of arms of Karl X Gustav, the conqueror of the province. |
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Jämtland County | The coat of arms is divided into blue and silver; Above is a silver elk with a golden bird soaring on its rump and a golden polecat leaping from the front and below are black pliers in the center right, a black forging die with a red core and on the left two red-handled black machinist's hammers with their heads against each other and arranged in stakes Symbol: coat of arms of the landscapes of Jämtland (elk) and for Härjedalen pliers, blacksmith's hammer and two hammers |
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Jönköpings län | In blue a red bar with a wave cut on the underside. A three-tower tinned silver castle with an open gate and black windows stands on the wavy line. Three golden crowns float in bars in the head of the shield. Symbol: The coat of arms is almost identical to that of the city of Jönköping |
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Kalmar Lan | The coat of arms is quartered in gold and blue; In fields one and four a blue-armored red lion with a red, silver-tipped arrow and black bow aiming at the head of the shield, and in fields two and three a running red-armored golden ten-pointed stag with a red tongue and collar. |
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Kronobergs län | In gold, a blue-armored red lion with a red, silver-tipped arrow and black bow aiming at the head of the shield, standing on a green mountain of three. | ||
Norrbotten County | The coat of arms is quartered in blue and silver. In fields one and four a running, red-armored, silver stag surrounded by sprinkled gold stars and in fields two and three a red barefooted wild man with a green apron and hair holding a golden club in his right hand over his right shoulder, facing the viewer. Symbol: The Län consists of parts of Lapland and Västerbotten and shows two times a reindeer and a man with a club, who is only dressed in a loincloth made of birch leaves. |
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Skåne County | In red a gold-crowned, torn-off griffin head with a gold-lipped tongue. Symbol: The coat of arms shows the head of a griffin and varies the coat of arms of the historical province of Skåne . |
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Stockholm County | The golden inserted tip divides into blue and red. The black, torn-off griffin head in the tip is red-armored and thus also tongued; in front a golden head of a youth with a crown facing the viewer and behind a golden imperial orb with a gold cross Symbol: Coats of arms of the city of Stockholm , Uppland and Södermanlands , the latter having simplified the griffin to a griffin head. |
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Södermanland County | A red-armored black griffin in gold. Symbol: The griffin from this coat of arms can also be found in the coat of arms of Stockholm County. The coat of arms was given to the province in 1560 at the funeral of King Gustav I and goes back to the noblewoman of the 14th century, Bo Jonsson, whose family had a griffin as the family coat of arms and founded Gripsholm Castle . ( grip = griffin + holm = island). |
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Uppsala län | A golden orb in red with a gold cross on top. Symbol: The coat of arms is largely identical to the coat of arms of the historical province of Uppland , which was awarded at the funeral of Gustav I in 1560. The orb can probably be seen on the central position of Uppland in Sweden. |
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Värmland County | A red-armored blue eagle in silver. Symbol: The coat of arms was awarded in 1567. |
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Västerbotten County | The coat of arms is divided and split at the bottom. Above, in blue, a running red-armored silver stag with sprinkled gold stars; Below and in front in silver a red barefoot wild man facing the viewer with a green apron and hair holding a golden club in his right hand over his right shoulder and behind in blue three red-rimmed silver salmon on stakes, the middle one facing. Symbol: The coat of arms of Västerbotten (reindeer), Lapland (wild man) and Ångermanland (salmon). |
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Västernorrlands Lan | The coat of arms is split and placed in front of three red-flooded silver salmon on stakes in blue, the middle one facing the other and at the back a red wave bar in silver with a blue wave shield head and wave shield base. Symbol: coat of arms of Ångermanland (salmon) and Medelpad . |
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Västmanland County | In the silver coat of arms a blue three-mountain, from which three red flames lick up. | ||
Västra Götalands län | The coat of arms is quartered. Field one is in blue with three silver diagonal bars and a golden, crowned, red-tongued and armored lion, swinging a sword, and in front of it a blue shield with three (2; 1) golden crowns. Field two in silver with a tinned red tower held by a blue lion with gold weapons and a tongue on the left and a blue sword with the point pointing to the head of the shield on the right; Field three in silver is a red bull with golden arms turned in the opposite direction and in the last slanted black and gold field a black, red-armored lion's backside. Two silver stars with six points lie on the cut edge on black. Symbol: Coat of arms of the provincial capital Gothenburg (lion with sword and shield) and the arms of Bohuslän (castle), Dalsland (bull) and Västergötland (lion and star). |
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Örebro län | The coat of arms is split. In front in silver a red-armored blue eagle and behind in silver a blue three-mountain, from which three red flames lick up. In the red head of the shield two diagonally crossed golden arrows with golden fletching and silver tips, which are angled by four silver roses. Symbol: coat of arms of Värmland (eagle), Västmanland (mountains with flames) and Närke (crossed arrows). |
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Östergötland County | In red a blue armored golden griffin with four silver roses. Symbol: Equal coat of arms with the historical province of Östergötland , which had almost the same borders. |
See also
Web links
- Flags of the World (English)