National personification

Britannia arm-in-arm with Uncle Sam symbolizes the British-American alliance in World War I.

A National personification are concepts such as nations, emotions, and natural forces/phenomena, such as seasons and weather in relation to persona characteristics of a state or the people(s) it inhabits. It may appear in political mascots and cultural depictions.

List of national personifications

Location	Image	Personification	Animal used for the same purpose
Bangladesh	File:Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore.jpg	Banga Mata (lit. Mother Bengal).^[1]	Bengal tiger^[2]
European Union	File:Enlèvement d'Europe by Nöel-Nicolas Coypel (detail).jpg	Europa or Europa regina	Zeus as a white bull
Greece	File:Theodoros Vryzakis, Grateful Hellas (1858).jpg	Hellas
India	File:Bharat Mata (6333841995).jpg	Bharat Mata ("Mother India")	Bengal tiger, Indian elephant
Ireland	File:Edmund Dwyer Gray Hibernia.png	Ériu, Banba, Fódla, Kathleen Ni Houlihan, Hibernia, The Old Woman of Beare^[3]
Palestine	File:Handara - panoramio.jpg	Handala
Pakistan	File:The Destruction of Daksha's sacrifice, from an illustrated manuscript of the Razmnama.jpg	Pak Watan - "A term of Endearment for Pakistan" which is "Mumlikat-e-Khudadad" ('God-Given State')	File:White leopard.jpg Himalayan Snow leopard
United Kingdom		Britannia (United Kingdom), John Bull (England), Dame Wales (Wales)	The Lion and the Unicorn (England and Scotland), Bulldog (United Kingdom), Welsh dragon (Wales)
United States	File:Unclesamwantyou.jpg	Uncle Sam (government personification), Lady Liberty, Columbia, Johnny Reb (The South, obsolete), Billy Yank (The North, obsolete), Brother Jonathan (New England, obsolete)	Bald Eagle, Timber rattlesnake (American Revolution, obsolete)

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↑ O'Rourke Murphy, M. & MacKillop, J. (2006). An Irish Literature Reader: Poetry, Prose, Drama.