Flags with a shield on them
A shield, with or without the rest of an achievement. 11 flags on this site carry one, and each says where that is written down.
- Equatorial Guinea
The white band is charged in the center with the coat of arms of Equatorial Guinea, a grey shield with a silk-cotton tree, the national motto in Spanish, and six six-pointed stars representing the country's five islands and continental territory.
Flag of Equatorial Guinea on Wikipedia
- Eswatini
The design by King Sobhuza II features a black and white shield called the Nguni shield, with a staff and two spears, on a field of blue, yellow, and red horizontal bands.
Flag of Eswatini on Wikipedia
- Fiji
It is a defaced cyan "Blue Ensign" (the actual Blue Ensign version of the flag is the government ensign), with the shield from the national coat of arms.
Flag of Fiji on Wikipedia
- Gibraltar
"An escutcheon on which the upper two thirds shall be a white field and on the said field set a red castle, and below the said castle, on the other third of the escutcheon, which must be a red field in which there must be a white line between the castle and the said red field, there shall be a golden key which hangs by a chain from the said castle, as are here figured".
Flag of Gibraltar on Wikipedia
- Kenya
The flag of Kenya (Bendera ya Kenya) is a tricolour of black, red, and green with two white edges imposed with a red, white and black Maasai shield and two crossed spears.
Flag of Kenya on Wikipedia
- Moldova
The national flag of the Republic of Moldova (Romanian: drapelul național al Republicii Moldova) is a vertical triband of blue, yellow, and red, charged with the coat of arms of Moldova (an eagle bearing a shield charged with an aurochs) on the centre bar.
Flag of Moldova on Wikipedia
- Portugal
The sphere and shield in the middle of the current flag are an integral part of the design, which has historically been centred on the royal arms, usually over fields of blue and white.
Flag of Portugal on Wikipedia
- San Marino
The national flag of San Marino is formed by two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and light blue with the national coat of arms superimposed in the center; the coat of arms has a shield (featuring three towers on three peaks) with a closed crown on top, flanked by an oak and laurel wreath, with a scroll below bearing the word LIBERTAS (Freedom).
Flag of San Marino on Wikipedia
- Sint Maarten
The crest consists of a pelican in front of a yellow sun, while the motto in Latin on a ribbon scroll under the escutcheon – Semper progrediens – means 'always progressing'.
Flag of Sint Maarten on Wikipedia
- Slovenia
The coat of arms is a shield with the image of Mount Triglav, Slovenia's highest peak, in white against a blue background at the centre; beneath it are two wavy blue lines representing the Adriatic Sea and local rivers, and above it are three six-pointed golden stars arranged in an inverted triangle which are taken from the coat of arms of the Counts of Celje, the great Slovene dynastic house of the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
Flag of Slovenia on Wikipedia
- Turks and Caicos Islands
The coat of arms, which was granted on 28 September 1965, takes the shape of a yellow shield which contains a queen conch shell, lobster, and a Melocactus.
Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands on Wikipedia
How a flag gets onto this list
A flag is here because its own English Wikipedia article says so, in the sentence printed under it. Nothing was decided by looking at the picture: colours can be measured off a drawing and a lion cannot, so this list defers to a source anybody can check rather than to our opinion of what we are seeing.
That also means the list is short rather than wrong. Where an article never gets round to describing what is on the flag, that flag is missing from these lists even though the symbol is plainly there — and we would rather be caught missing one than caught inventing one.