Coat of arms of Malawi

The coat of arms of Malawi is a three-part blazon. The top panel is silver with two blue wavy stripes. In the middle of a golden red, border lion, down in black and a golden rising sun with flame jets. Above the escutcheon is placed a helmet holly with red-gold Helmwulst, the crest is a auffliegender eagle against a two blue wavy lines rising golden sun. The helmet cover is red - golden.

Supporters are. In natural colors with red tongue, a lion on the right and left of a leopard They stand on a rock formation. Underneath a golden tape with the black inscription UNITY and FREEDOM.

Symbolism

The wavy lines on the plate, their repetition in the crest and the eagle stand for Lake Malawi. The lion in the red box is taken from the coat of arms of England, three of these lions, but there hersehend (Leopard ), shows. The rising sun symbolizes the dawn of freedom and independence of African states. The rock formation is the Mulanje Massif, the highest mountain in the country. Unity and Freedom ( "Unity and Freedom" ) is the state motto of Malawi.

History

The coat of arms was granted on 30 June 1964, the British colony of Nyasaland at their release into independence by the British Queen, replacing the older colonial coat of arms that had been in use since 1914 and was shown in white a golden leopards on a rock, about in wavy remote black shield main the rising golden sun.

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