Coat of arms of Poland

Coat of arms of Poland
Armiger	Republic of Poland
Adopted	c. 1000 (first version) 29 March 1928 (current design) 22 February 1990 (last modified)
Shield	Gules, an eagle argent, armed, crowned and beaked or, langued argent

The coat of arms of Poland is a white, crowned eagle with a golden beak and talons, on a red background.

In Poland, the coat of arms as a whole is referred to as godło both in official documents and colloquial speech,^[1] despite the fact that other coats of arms are usually called a herb (e.g. the Nałęcz herb or the coat of arms of Finland). This stems from the fact that in Polish heraldry, the word godło (plural: godła) means only a heraldic charge (in this particular case a white crowned eagle) and not an entire coat of arms, but it is also an archaic word for a national symbol of any sort.^[2] In later legislation only the herb retained this designation; it is unknown why.