Usage in Specific Countries
The following articles contain specific information on the rank as it pertains to individual countries:
- Admiral of the fleet (Australia)
- Admiral flote (Croatia)
- Großadmiral (Germany and Austria-Hungary)
- Amiral (France)
- Archinaúarchos, (Greece)
- Admiral of the fleet (India)
- Grande Ammiraglio (Italy)
- Gensui (Imperial Japan)
- Wonsu (South Korea)
- Laksamana Armada (Malaysia)
- Admiral of the fleet (Nigeria)
- Admiraal (Netherlands)
- Admiral of the fleet (New Zealand)
- Admirał floty (Poland)
- Almirante da armada (Portugal)
- Admiral of the fleet (Russia)
- Admiral of the fleet (USSR)
- Admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union
- Capitán general de la armada (Spain)
- Chom phon ruea (Thailand)
- Büyük Amiral (Turkey)
- Admiral flote (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
- Admiral of the fleet (United Kingdom)
- Fleet admiral (United States)
- Mushir (Middle East)
Ambiguity exists when translating the French amiral into English (into admiral of the fleet or admiral). A French title of amiral de la flotte, outranking a full admiral was invented in 1939 for Darlan, who was the only person in French history to hold that title.
Before the fall of the monarchy in 1952, the Egyptian Navy had the equivalent rank of sayed elbehar elazam.
In the Turkish Navy, the corresponding rank büyük amiral, literally meaning "grand admiral", can only be bestowed by the National Assembly, and only given to an admiral who leads the navy successfully in and out of a war, criteria tougher than those for equivalent ranks. No one has ever been bestowed this rank yet in the republican era. During the period of the Ottoman Empire, commanders of the navy carried the rank of kapudan-i derya as equivalent.
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