Location
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Image
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Personification
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Animal used for the same purpose
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Albania
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Mother Albania (Nëna Shqipëria)
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Americas
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Personification of the Americas
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Argentina
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Effigy of the Republic/Liberty/Progress/Fatherland, Gaucho
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Armenia
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Mother Armenia (Mayr Hayastan; lit. "Mother Hayastan")
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Australia
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Little Boy from Manly
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Boxing kangaroo
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Austria
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Austria (Personification), Tyrolia (Tyrol)
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Double-headed eagle
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Bangladesh
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Bangamata (lit. Mother Bengal).[2]
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Bengal tiger[3]
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Belgium
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La Belgique or Belgica, Manneken Pis[4][5]
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Brabantic Lion, Leo Belgicus
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Brazil
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Efígie da República; the Bandeirante (only in São Paulo State and Minas Gerais); the "Tropeiro" (in Minas Gerais); the Candango (in Brasília); the Gaúcho (in Rio Grande do Sul);
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Bulgaria
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Mother Bulgaria
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Cambodia
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Preah Thong and Neang Neak
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Canada
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Mountie,[6] Johnny Canuck,[7] Le Vieux de '37 (French Canada), Canada Bereft also known as Mother Canada (at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial). Canada was often personified as a young woman in 19th and early 20th century editorial cartoons, called simply "Canada", "Miss Canada", or sometimes "Mother Canada".[8]
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Canadian beaver
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Chile
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El Roto, El Huaso, Doña Juanita (an average Chilean woman from the countryside)
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Condorito
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China and Taiwan
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Jade Emperor
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Chinese dragon
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Colombia
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Juan Valdez
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Croatia
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Mother Croatia (Mati Hrvatska)
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Czechia
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Čechie, Czech Vašek, Svejk.
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double-tailed Czech lion
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Denmark
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Holger Danske, Mother Denmark
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Dominican Republic
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Conchoprimo
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Egypt
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Mother of the World (Om El Donia)
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El Salvador
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Salvador del Mundo
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European Union
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Europa or Europa regina
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Zeus as a white bull
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Finland
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Finnish Maiden (Suomi-neito)
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Finnish lion
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France
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Marianne
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Gallic rooster
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Georgia
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"Mother of a Georgian" (Kartlis Deda)
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Germany
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Germania, Deutscher Michel, Bavaria (Bavaria), Berolina (Berlin), Brema (Bremen), Brunonia (Brunswick Land), Franconia (Franconia), Francofurtia (Frankfurt), Hammonia (Hamburg), Lubeca (Lübeck), Borussia (Prussia), Palatia (Rhineland-Palatinate), Saxonia (Saxony), Vimaria (Weimar), Württembergia (Württemberg)
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Reichsadler, Bundesadler, Berliner Bär (Berlin), Bavarian Lion (Bavaria), Marcher Eagle (Brandenburg), Prussian Eagle (Prussia)
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Greece
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Hellas
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Haiti
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Ezili Dantor, Katrin (based on the real life Haitian hero, Catherine Flon)
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Hungary
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The Lady of Hungaria
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Turul
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Iceland
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The Lady of the Mountains (Fjallkonan)
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India
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Bharat Mata ("Mother India"),
The Common Man (Indian anti-corruption movement)
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Bengal tiger, Asiatic lion, Indian Elephant, Indian peafowl
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Indonesia
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Ibu Pertiwi
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Garuda Pancasila
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Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan
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Rostam[9][10][11]
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Lion and sun
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Ireland
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Ériu, Banba, Fódla, Kathleen Ni Houlihan, Hibernia, The Old Woman of Beare[12]
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Israel
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Srulik
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Italy
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Italia turrita, Roma
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Italian wolf[13][14]
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Japan
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Amaterasu, Emperor Jimmu[15]
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Green Pheasant, Koi
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Kenya
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Wanjiku
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Korea ( North Korea and South Korea - despite mutual enmity, both states lay claim to the same historical heritage)
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Dangun, Ungnyeo, Hwanung
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Korean Tiger, Chollima
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Kyrgyzstan
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Manas
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Latvia
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Milda
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Lithuania
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Lietuva
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Low Lands or Benelux (Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg)
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Leo Belgicus
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Malaysia
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Hang Tuah[16][17]
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Malayan tiger[18]
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Malta
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Melita
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Mexico
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Alegoría de la Patria Mexicana (es), La China Poblana
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Golden eagle
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Morocco
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Barbary Lion
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Montenegro
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Fairy of Lovćen, Mother Montenegro
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Kingdom of Navarre
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Arrano beltza
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Netherlands
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Dutch Maiden
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Dutch Republic Lion, Leo Hollandicus, Leo Belgicus
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Nepal
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Gurkha, Sherpa
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New Zealand
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Zealandia[19]
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Kiwi
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Nicaragua
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El Güegüense
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Motmot
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North Macedonia
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Mother Macedonia[20][21]
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Lion or a mother lion
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Norway
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Mother Norway [no], stereotyp. Ola Nordmann & Kari Nordmann, hist. Nór
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Palestine
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Handala
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Peru
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Libertad also known as Madre Patria (Allegory of the Peruvian Motherland)
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Vicuña
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Philippines
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Ináng Bayan - Filipinas, Juan dela Cruz
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Philippine Carabao
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Poland
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Polonia
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White eagle
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Portugal
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Zé Povinho, Eu nacional (National Self), Republic effigy, Guardian Angel of Portugal
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Rooster of Barcelos
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Romania
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România Modernă
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Russia
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Mother Russia
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Russian bear, double-headed eagle
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Serbia
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Mother Serbia (Majka Srbija), Kosovo Maiden (Kosovska devojka)
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Serbian eagle
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Singapore
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Merlion
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Slovakia
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Jánošík
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Slovenia
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Kralj Matjaž ("King Matjaž", a legendary king in Slovenia and some other nations), Peter Klepec[citation needed]
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Spain
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Hispania
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Hispanic Lion
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Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka Matha
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Sinhala Lion
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Suriname
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Mama Sranan (Mother Suriname), a 1965 sculpture by Jozeph Klas in the center of Paramaribo, of a mother figure holding five children representing Suriname's ethnic groups in her arms.[22]
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Sweden
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Mother Svea
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Switzerland
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Helvetia, Basilea (Basel), Berna (Bern), Geneva (Geneva), Tigurina Virgo (Zürich), Lucerna (Lucerne)
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Thailand
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Siam Devadhiraj (พระสยามเทวาธิราช "The Guardian Angel of Siam")
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White elephant
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Tibet
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Snow Lion
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Ukraine
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Cossack Mamay
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Ruthenian Lion
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United Kingdom
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Britannia (United Kingdom), John Bull (England), Dame Wales (Wales)
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The Lion and the Unicorn (England and Scotland), Bulldog (United Kingdom), Welsh dragon (Wales)
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United States
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Uncle Sam (government personification), Lady Liberty, Columbia, Johnny Reb (The South, obsolete), Billy Yank (The North, obsolete), Brother Jonathan (New England, obsolete)
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Bald Eagle, North American Bison, Timber rattlesnake (American Revolution, obsolete)
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Uruguay
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Efigie de la República
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Vietnam
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Lạc Long Quân, Âu Cơ, The Four Immortals
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Vietnamese Dragon, Lạc Bird
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Venice
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Juditha
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Venetian Lion
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