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A national icon is a building or structure that can be easily recognized, and thus many times used as a metaphor for the certain country. These are popularized by advertisements used to promote a certain country. Examples includes being used in logos of tourist boards of certain countries, used in currencies or in tourist visas issued by governments.

List

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Here is a list, please feel free to add. If not correct, please correct it.

Country City Name Images Used for Opening
Australia Australia Sydney Sydney Harbour Bridge[1][2][3][4]
Bridge 1932[5]
Austria Austria Vienna Vienna State Opera[6][7]
Theatre, Concert Hall 1869
Bahrain Bahrain Manama Bahrain World Trade Center[8] Office tower 2008
Bangladesh Bangladesh Savar Jatiyo Smriti Soudho[9]
War monument 1982
Brazil Brazil Rio de Jeneiro Christ the Redeemer (statue)[10][11]
Statue 1931
Brunei Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque[12][13]
Mosque 1958
Canada Canada Toronto CN Tower[14][15][16][17]
Observation Tower 1976
China China Great Wall of China[18][19][20][21][22]
Wall 7th Century BC[23]
Denmark Denmark Copenhagen The Little Mermaid (statue)[24][25][26][27][28] Statue 1913
Egypt Egypt Giza Egyptian pyramids[29][30][31]
Mausoleum Various
France France Paris Eiffel Tower[32][33][34][35]
File:EiffelTowerSept08.JPG
 Tower 1889
Germany Germany Berlin Brandenburg Gate[36][37][38][39][40][41]
City gate 1791
India India Agra Taj Mahal[42][43][44][45]
Mausoleum 1653
Kuwait Kuwait Kuwait City Kuwait Towers[46][47][48] Water tower, and observatory 1979
Russia Russia Moscow Red Square[49][50][51]
City square 1595[52]
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia Mecca Masjid al Haram[53] Mosque 638
Singapore Singapore Singapore City Merlion[54][55]
Statue 1972
Syria Syria Damascus Umayyad Mosque[56][57][58]
Mosque 715
Turkey Turkey Istanbul Sultan Ahmed Mosque[59][60][61][62]
Mosque 1616
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates Dubai Burj Al Arab[63][64][65] Hotel 2000
United Kingdom United Kingdom Big Ben[66][67][68][69][70] London Clock Tower 1859
United States United States Statue of Liberty[71][72][73][74][75] New York City
Statue 1886

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References

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  5. ^ http://www.gids.nl/sydney/opera.html
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  35. ^ http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/TOP-10-SIGHTS-OF-PARIS/354795
  36. ^ http://procaricature.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/berlin/
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  72. ^ http://www.answers.com/topic/statue-of-liberty
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  75. ^ http://fridgemagnetonline.blogspot.com/2009/04/statue-of-libertynew-york.html

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