The coat of arms of Greenland is a blue shield charged with an upright polar bear.

The 1470 London Roll shows an arms captioned Le Roy de Greneland featuring a shield depicting a polar bear surrounded by three birds.

[2] The current coat of arms was designed by Greenlandic artist Jens Rosing and adopted on 1 May 1989 by the Landsting.

Instead of the Danish version in the royal arms which follows the heraldic tradition in raising the right forepaw, the polar bear on the Greenlandic coat of arms raises the left forepaw, due to the traditional Inuit belief that polar bears are left-handed.

The polar bear was first included as a symbol of Greenland in the Danish coat of arms during the reign of King Frederik III of Denmark, but did not gain widespread use on its own until the early 20th century.