User:Hosmich/Roundels

This page has three parts: list of twin roundels (idea similar to User:Hosmich/Twin flags), list of minimal country symbols and list of heraldic symbols (coats of arms or flags) containing the other symbol of the same entity.

Twin roundels

Colors are from outer to inner.

Blue, white, blue

Red, yellow, green

Red, white, black

Egypt
Yemen
Trinidad and Tobago (sibling)
Upper Volta
Libya (1969-1977)

Red, white (siblings)

White, red (siblings)

Belarus (and former Russia)
Georgia
Japan
Nepal
Tunisia

Red, white, green

Burundi
Italy
Lebanon is sibling
Mexico is sibling
Seychelles
Hungary was sibling (1951-1990)

Red, green, white

Blue, red, white (siblings)

Red, yellow, blue

Chad
Romania
Moldova is cousin

Red, white, blue

Minimal symbols

Here are listed simple symbols as striped or other simple flags as well as complex symbols recognizable for respective country. Sometimes more symbols of comparable complexity with different shapes are listed. List of similar symbols for languages is here.

Country	Symbol
Afghanistan	(simpler than any flag, CoA or roundel)
Albania
Algeria
Andorra	(similar to Romania) (historical)
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Banglasdesh
Barbados
Belarus	(similar to Russia) (historical, but recognizable)
Belgium	(more standard proportions)
Belize	(similar to Laos)
Benin
Bhutan	(simplified flag)
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana	(simpler, but less heraldic)
Brazil	(less simple, but more recognizable)
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burma	(complex, but recognizable) (not recognizable)
Burundi	(similar to Italy)
Cambodia	(simplest, but wrong colors) (simpler device)
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad	(both similar to Romania)
Chile	(similar to Liberia) (simplified CoA)
China
Colombia
Comoros	(common for all historical flags, e.g. )
Congo, DR	(still recognizable)
Congo, Republic
Costa Rica
Côte d'Ivoire
Croatia	(less recognizable)
Cuba
Cyprus	(similar to Greece)
Czech Republic	(less simple, but recognizable)
Denmark	(simpler, but less recognizable)
Djibouti
Dominica	(parrot alone is not recognizable)
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador	(similar to Colombia)
Egypt	(similar to Yemen)
El Salvador	(similar to others in Central America)
Equatorial Guinea	(less recognizable)
Eritrea	(simpler) based on flag
Estonia
Ethiopia	(what is more recognizable?)
Fiji	or bird from
Finland	(less recognizable)
France
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia	(less recognizable)
Germany	(what is simpler?)
Ghana	(similar to Bolivia and Congo)
Greece	(less recognizable)
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana	(less recognizable than flag)
Haiti
Honduras	(less recognizable than flag)
Hungary
Iceland
India	(more recognizable) (simpler)
Indonesia	(similar to Monaco) (inspired by emblem)
Iran	(less recognizable) (still recognizable)
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica	(simpler proposal is basis for roundel)
Japan
Jordan	(less recognizable)
Kazakhstan	(main devices from flag in star shape)
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea, North
Korea, South	(pan-Korean)
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos	(similar to Belize) (recognizable?)
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia	(similar to Chile) (simplified flag)
Libya
Liechtenstein	(is crown alone recognizable?)
Lithuania	(less recognizable)
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi	(based on flag but without sun)
Malaysia
Maldives	(simplified flag)
Mali
Malta	(not confuse with Sovereign Military Order of Malta)
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico	(similar to Italy)
Micronesia
Moldova	(more recognizable) (simpler)
Monaco	(similar to Indonesia) (based on CoA of House of Grimaldi)
Mongolia
Montenegro	(simplest heraldic) (based on flag)
Morocco
Mozambique	(devices in chevron are on emblem and roundel too, but flag is most recognizable)
Namibia	(without white)
Nauru
Nepal	(comparable simple, less recognizable)
Netherlands	(national color) (simplest flag)
New Zealand	(heraldic symbols) (other ferns)
Nicaragua	similar to others in Central America, but more recognizable than these roundels
Niger
Nigeria
Norway	(historical, modern roundel is less simple)
Oman	(simpler version in roundel) (not recognizable)
Pakistan	(more recognizable)
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea	(less recognizable) (device is simplified emblem)
Paraguay	(similar to France)
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal	(less recognizable)
Qatar	(less recognizable)
Romania	(both similar to Chad)
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa	(less recognizable)
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia	(what is simpler?)
Senegal	(what is simpler?)
Serbia	(simplest heraldic) (simplest mix of tricolor and cross)
Seychelles	(less recognizable)
Sierra Leone
Singapore	(simplest flag)
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka	(not simple, but recognizable) (simpler than , but both are not recognizable)
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland	(simpler than CoA, but shield alone is minimal)
Sweden	(less recognizable)
Switzerland
Syria	(Assad) (rebels) both based on historical flags and recognizable (fusion)
Tajikistan	(simplest heraldic) (less recognizable)
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey	(simpler, but less recognizable)
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu	(unique)
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom	(compound) (simplified) (unifying symbol)
United States	(simpler roundels are historical)
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu	or "curved tooth" alone
Vatican	(Holy See)
Venezuela	(simpler than this roundel)
Vietnam	(less recognizable)
Yemen
Zambia	(simplified flag)
Zimbabwe
Abkhazia
Cook Islands	(recognizable despite different colors)
Kosovo
Nagorno-Karabakh
Niue
Northern Cyprus
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Somaliland
South Ossetia
Taiwan
Transnistria
Hong Kong

Some minimal symbols can be drawn by microheraldry using solid squares.

Hungary (CoA)

Slovakia

Slovenia

Rows should be continuous, but let's imagine it.

Duplicated symbols

This list is limited to sovereign states, dependent countries, former countries, some subdivisions and cities. More duplicated symbols you can look for in categories at the beginning of each part or here.

Flag is heraldic banner

(see commons:Category:Heraldic banners)

Albania modern
Algeria (1962-1971)
Austria
Avanduse (Estonia)
Bahrain
Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)
Bavaria (lesser CoA)
Some regions of Belarus: Brest, Grodno, Minsk City
Regions of Belgium
Many provinces of Belgium (except Luxembourg and Namur) part of shield:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Some states of Brazil: Maranhão (part of shield), Pará, Federal District
Burkina Faso
Cameroon (background of shield)
Some provinces of Canada: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island
Central Department (Paraguay)
Channel Islands: Herm, Sark (cantons)
Chile (moved star)
Some regions of Chile: Magallanes (part of shield), Los Ríos
China (background of CoA)
Como (Italy) non-free CoA
Cook Islands (without canton) non-free CoA
Corsica
Regions of the Czech Republic
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Dominican Republic (civil ensign)
Egypt (without CoA)
Regions of France
Greece (part of flag)
Hamburg (Germany)
Hong Kong
Iceland
Iraq
Ireland (presidential flag)
Some regions of Italy: Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Piedmont, Sardinia, Sicily, Veneto
Jihlava (Czech Republic, rearranged)
Kenya (stripes and shield separated)
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kõo Parish
Kuwait (part of CoA)
Lebanon
Counties of Lithuania and some cities + Jonava, Šiauliai, Marijampolė
Luxembourg (civil ensign)
Macau
Madeira
Malta
Isle of Man
Martinique
Maryland (only shield)
Mauritania (part of CoA)
Micronesia (part of CoA)
Moldavia (historical)
Monaco (variant flag)
Morocco (part of CoA)
Mpumalanga (South Africa) non-free CoA
Nagorno-Karabakh (part of shield)
Namibia
Nelson, New Zealand
Provinces of the Netherlands: Overijssel (lion transformed to border stripes), South Holland
Some cities of the Netherlands: Hilversum, Maastricht, Utrecht, Zwolle

Northern Mariana Islands
Counties and municipalities of Norway (more here)
Olomouc (Czech Republic)
Palestine
Philippines (part of CoA)
Some voivodeships of Poland: Lower Silesian, Łódź, Masovian, Pomeranian, Greater Poland
Pula (Croatia)
Puntland
Qatar (part of emblem)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (rearranged fields)
Samoa (only canton)
Sabah (mount and tricolor separated)
Sarawak
Many municipalities of Serbia (more here)
Singapore (part of flags)
Somalia
Spain (naval jack)
Some communities of Spain: Asturias, Castile and León, Castile-La Mancha, Catalonia, Community of Madrid (part of CoA), Murcia

Provinces of Sweden (official flags)
(unofficial flags are often Nordic Crosses: )
Switzerland
Cantons of Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan (naval jack)
Tanzania (part of CoA)
United Arab Emirates
Many counties of the United Kingdom File:Cumbria County Council coat of arms.jpg (many CoAs are unfree)
Victoria (Australia)
Vietnam (part of CoA)

Coat of arms in flag

(see commons:Category:Flags with coats of arms)

Afar Region (Ethiopia, unofficial CoA) (regions of Ethiopia have no official CoAs)
Afghanistan (monochromatic)
Andorra
Anguilla
Some provinces of Argentina: Corrientes, Jujuy (modified), La Pampa, La Rioja (part of CoA), Mendoza (modified), Neuquén (part of CoA), Salta, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz (part of CoA), Santa Fe (main figure), Santiago del Estero (main figure)
Australian Capital Territory
Austria (state flag)
States of Austria (state flags)
Some regions of Belarus: Gomel, Minsk, Mogilev, Vitebsk
Belize
Berlin (only bear)
Bermuda
Bolivia (slightly modified)
Bonaire (device from inner shield)
Cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
( is obsolete)
Brazil (not coat of arms, but seal)
Brazil (proposal)
Some states of Brazil: Alagoas, Ceará, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina
British Antarctic Territory
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Bago Division of Burma File:Seal bagodivision.png
Some subdivisions of Canada: Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Yukon
Cayman Islands
Channel Islands: Jersey, Alderney
Many regions of Chile (except Atacama, Coquimbo, O'Higgins, Los Lagos, Magallanes and Los Ríos)
Some comunes of Chile
Chinese Soviet Republic (part of CoA)
Colombia (naval ensign)
Departments of Colombia: Cundinamarca, Guaviare, Sucre
Costa Rica
Croatia
Counites of Croatia
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Some subdivisions of Ecuador: provinces Chimborazo, Santa Elena
cantons Chunchi, Guamote, Salinas, Santa Elena
Egypt (monochromatic)
Many governorates of Egypt (some CoAs are only on Arabic Wikipedia)
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Estonia (presidential flag) lesser CoA:
Counties of Estonia
Ethiopia
Falkland Islands
Fiji
Finland (state flag)
French Polynesia
Germany (slightly different)
Some states of Germany: civil flags: Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland

state flags: Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia

Guam
Guatemala
Haiti
Hong Kong (1959-1997) unofficial
Hungary (proposed state flag)
Counties of Hungary
Provinces of Indonesia
exception: West Sumatra
Iran
Many cities in Israel
Italy (civil ensign, not national CoA)
Italy (1890-1946, lesser arms)
Some regions of Italy: Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Liguria, Marche, Molise, Trentino-South Tyrol, Tuscany, Umbria
Kedah
Kelantan (simplified CoA)
Districts and republican cities of Latvia
Liechtenstein (only crown)
Some cities of Lithuania: Klaipėda, Kaunas, Telšiai, Vilnius
Mayotte (unofficial)
Mexico
States and many cities of Mexico
Moldova
Monaco (state flag)
Montenegro
Montserrat
New Caledonia (unofficial) co-official flag contains part of emblem
Nicaragua
Oman
Provinces of Pakistan
Paraguay
Some departments of Paraguay: Amambay, Cordillera, Itapúa, Misiones, Paraguarí, San Pedro
Penang (only palm)
Peru
Peru (war flag)

Some provinces of Peru: Lima, Pucallpa, Ascope

Some regions of Peru: Callao, Amazonas, Loreto

Provinces of the Philippines (most CoAs are unfree)
Pitcairn Islands
Poland (variant)
Some voivodeships of Poland: Lublin, Podkarpackie, Świętokrzyskie, West Pomeranian
Portugal (lesser CoA)
Some municipalities of Romania
Some federal subjects of Russia (more here)
Saint Barthélemy (unofficial)
Saint Helena
San Marino
Serbia (lesser CoA)
Sint Maarten
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Australia
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
South Korea (main part of CoA)
Spain
Some communities of Spain: Andalusia, Aragon, Canary Islands, Cantabria, Ceuta, Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, Melilla, Navarre
Taiwan
Many subdivisions of Taiwan
Provinces of Thailand (most flags are not on Wiki)
Turks and Caicos Islands
Many oblasts of Ukraine
United Arab Emirates (presidential flag)
Many states and territories of the U.S. (more here)
Val d'Aran (Spain)
Vatican (slightly different)
Venezuela
Some states of Venezuela: Anzoátegui, Apure, Aragua, Bolívar, Cojedes (part of CoA), Guárico, Caracas