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Welcome to CamoPedia

Camopedia (Camouflage Encyclopedia) is the brainchild of Henrik Clausen and Eric H Larson. Our goal is to create an academically-supported resource and database referencing the major military and paramilitary camouflage patterns in usage through all time periods. This site is copyrighted 2010 -- All rights reserved.

Original submissions, corrections and additional information are welcomed, although we cannot credit individual authors or submissions directly. We do respectfully ask that all data to be considered for inclusion on this site be appropriately documented, or references cited.

This site is presently under construction.

Should you have any comments please send a mail to icus@camouflagesociety.org

• ICUS - International Camouflage Uniform Society

• International Camouflage Pattern Index by Eric H. Larson

Countries

AFRICA

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• Algeria

• Angola

• Benin

• Botswana

• Burkina Faso

• Burundi

• Cameroon

• Cape Verde

• Chad

• Comoros

• Republic of Congo

• Djibouti

• Egypt

• Equatorial Guinea

• Eritrea

• Ethiopia

• Gabon

• Gambia

• Ghana

• Guinea

• Guinea-Bissau

• Kenya

• Lesotho

• Liberia

• Libya

• Madagascar

• Malawi

• Mali

• Mauritania

• Mauritius

• Morocco

• Mozambique

• Namibia

• Niger

• Nigeria

• Rwanda

• Rhodesia

• Senegal

• Sierra Leone

• Somalia

• South Africa

• Sudan

• Swaziland

• Tanzania

• Togo

• Tunisia

• Uganda

• Zaire

• Zambia

• Zimbabwe

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ASIA

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• Afghanistan

• Armenia

• Azerbaijan

• Bahrain

• Bangladesh

• Brunei

• Burma

• Cambodia

• China

• Cyprus

• Georgia

• India

• Indonesia

• Iran

• Iraq

• Israel

• Japan

• Jordan

• Kazakhstan

• Kuwait

• Kyrgyzstan

• Laos

• Lebanon

• Malaysia

• Maldives

• Moldova

• Mongolia

• Nepal

• North Korea

• Oman

• Pakistan

• Philippines

• Qatar

• Saudi Arabia

• Singapore

• South Korea

• Sri Lanka

• Taiwan

• Tadjikistan

• Thailand

• Turkemenistan

• Turkey

• United Arab Emirates

• Uzbekistan

• Vietnam

• Yemen

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EUROPE

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• Albania

• Austria

• Belarus

• Belgium

• Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Bulgaria

• Croatia

• Czechoslovakia

• Czech Republic

• Denmark

• East Germany

• Estonia

• Finland

• France

• Germany - after 1945

• Germany (Third Reich)

• Greece

• Hungary

• Ireland

• Italy

• Latvia

• Lithuania

• Luxembourg

• Macedonia

• Netherlands

• Norway

• Poland

• Portugal

• Romania

• Serbia

• Slovakia

• Slovenia

• Sweden

• Switzerland

• Ukraine

• United Kingdom

• Yugoslavia

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NORTH AMERICA

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• Canada

• USA

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CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN

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• Cuba

• Dominican Republic

• El Salvador

• Guatemala

• Haiti

• Honduras

• Jamaica

• Mexico

• Nicaragua

• Panama

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SOUTH AMERICA

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• Argentina

• Bolivia

• Brazil

• Chile

• Colombia

• Ecuador

• Guyana

• Paraguay

• Peru

• Uruguay

• Venezuela

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OCEANIA

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• Australia

• Fiji

• New Zealand

• Papua New Guinea

• Tonga

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"Families" of patterns

• Brushstroke - eg. British WW2 patterns

• Digital patterns (CADPAT, MARPAT etc.)

• DPM (British)

• Duck hunter

• Flecktarn

• Lizard - eg. French or Portuguese lizard patterns

• Puzzle - "jigsaw puzzle" patterns (Belgium, Yugoslavia etc.)

• Splinter - German WW2 Wehrmacht, Bulgaria, Sweden etc.

• Tiger stripes - Vietnam War era pattern

• Woodland

Camouflage on military vehicles

Camouflage on military vehicles

Camouflage on military aircraft

Camouflage on military aircraft

Camouflage on naval vessels

Camouflage on naval vessels