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National, state and cultural emblems of Asia, Africa and Oceania โ the part of the catalogue that held one record before this sprint. What holds the group together is that each is a mark a state or a people uses to stand for itself, and that almost every one carries a fact its own popular account gets wrong: that Japan has no statutory coat of arms and the chrysanthemum fills the gap by practice, that the Indian State Emblem is an adaptation rather than a copy of the Sarnath capital, that the Merlion was designed in 1964, that adinkra symbols belong to a living Akan tradition and not to the Ghanaian state, that the Zimbabwe Bird's original meaning is simply not known.
A sixteen-petalled chrysanthemum flower seen from directly above.
Three upright flower spikes above three paulownia leaves.
A circle divided by an S-curve into red above and blue below.
Tiananmen gate under five stars in a wheat and rice wreath.
A navy blue wheel with twenty-four evenly spaced spokes.
Four lions standing back to back on a circular abacus.
A golden eagle bearing a shield of five symbols and a scroll.
A lion's head on a fish's body, spouting water.
A pair of interlocking spirals meeting in a knotted centre.
A bird turning its head backwards to take an egg from its back.
Three concentric circles.
A wooden comb with a row of long teeth.
A zigzag line of sharp reversals.
A single spiral based on an unfurling fern frond.
A fern frond with paired leaflets, shown in white or silver.
Black over red with a yellow disc at the centre.
Green, blue and black bands with a white headdress and star.
Stacked stones in a rough human form with outstretched arms.
A stylised bird of prey perched on a plinth with a chevron band.
A crowned lion holding a cross-topped staff and banner.
Horizontal bands of red, black and green.
A five-pointed black star on a gold band.
A crane with a spray of golden feathers on its head.