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  2. Sri Lankan elephant - Wikipedia

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    The Sri Lankan elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) is native to Sri Lanka and one of three recognised subspecies of the Asian elephant. It is the type subspecies of the Asian elephant and was first described by Carl Linnaeus under the binomial Elephas maximus in 1758. [ 1 ]

  3. List of national animals - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan junglefowl (national bird) Gallus lafayettii [59] Tanzania: Giraffe (national animal) Giraffa sp. [60] [61] [62] Thailand: Asian elephant (national animal) Elephas maximus [63] Siamese fighting fish (national aquatic animal) Betta splendens [64] [65] Uganda: Grey crowned crane (national bird) Balearica regulorum [66 ...

  4. National symbols of Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    The green field stands for the lushness of the land of Bangladesh. [1] The flag is based on a similar flag used during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, which had a yellow map of the country inside the red disc. In 1972 this map was deleted from the flag. One reason given was the difficulty of rendering the map correctly on both sides of ...

  5. Category:National symbols of Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    العربية; Asturianu; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Čeština; Deutsch; Eesti

  6. Armorial of sovereign states - Wikipedia

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    State emblem of Pakistan. ... Emblem of Sri Lanka. Emblem of Sudan. ... (33,000 arms of countries, states etc.) This page was last edited on 8 January 2025 ...

  7. National Emblem of Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    Rice represents its presence as the staple food of Bangladesh, and for the agriculture of that nation. The four stars symbolise the four founding principles of the Republic that were enshrined in the Constitution of Bangladesh: nationalism, socialism, democracy, and secularism. The details of the emblem are inscribed in the constitution:

  8. Shanthi (elephant) - Wikipedia

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    The orphaned calf was a state gift from William Gopallawa and the children of Sri Lanka to the children of the United States. At an April 2 1977 ceremony at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., she was symbolically handed over by Punitha Gunaratne, the daughter of a Sri Lankan Embassy official, to Amy Carter, the daughter of President Jimmy ...

  9. Asian elephant - Wikipedia

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    The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), also known as the Asiatic elephant, is a species of elephant distributed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India in the west to Borneo in the east, and Nepal in the north to Sumatra in the south. Three subspecies are recognised—E. m. maximus, E. m. indicus and E. m. sumatranus.