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Type Symbol Image Notes Flag: Flag of Ukraine [1]: National Flag of Ukraine: Official Coat of arms: Coat of arms of Ukraine [2]: Emblem of Ukraine: Official. The lone emblem featured on it is the tryzub (meaning "trident"), a state sigil of the Kyivan Rus from the 10th century A.D., [3] believed to originally represent the Holy Trinity, possibly adapted from symbolism of a falcon.
Ganges river dolphin (national aquatic animal) Platanista gangetica [32] Indian elephant (national heritage animal) Elephas maximus indicus [33] Indonesia: Komodo dragon (national animal) Varanus komodoensis [34] Javan hawk-eagle (national bird) Nisaetus bartelsi [34] Asian arowana (national fish) Scleropages formosus [34] Italy: Italian wolf ...
The coat of arms of Ukraine is a blue shield with a golden trident.It is colloquially known as the tryzub (Ukrainian: тризуб, pronounced, lit. ' trident '). The small coat of arms was officially adopted on 19 February 1992, [1] while constitutional provisions exist for establishing the great coat of arms, which is not yet officially adopted as of March 2024.
A synopsis of Ukraine's faunal and flora history was noted in Stephen Rudnicki's Ukraine, the Land and Its People: An Introduction to Its Geography (1912): "Ukraine has a much more varied plant and animal geography than the proper Russian territory, despite the latter's much greater extent. In Ukraine, the borders of three main divisions of ...
There are eighty-five mammal species in Ukraine, of which two are critically endangered, two are endangered, thirteen are vulnerable, and three are near threatened.One of the species listed for Ukraine can no longer be found in the wild. [1]
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The Ruthenian lion first appears on the seal of Ruthenian King Yurii I of Galicia, dated to the beginning of the fourteenth century.On its obverse there is a static image of the monarch on the throne, and on the reverse – an armed rider holding a shield with the image of a lion on his hind legs.