Denomination "Grand Cordons"
The orders in which the highest rank (or second after "Collar") is named "Grand Cordons" include the following orders:
- Belgium: Grand Cordons of the Order of Leopold (highest)
- Egypt: Grand Cordons of the Order of the Nile (highest)
- Japan: Grand Cordons of the Order of the Chrysanthemum (2nd after Collar)
- Japan: Grand Cordons of the Order of the Rising Sun (highest)
- Jordan‏: Grand Cordons of the Order of the Star of Jordan (highest)
- Persia: Grand Cordons of the Order of the Lion and the Sun
- Tunisia: Grand Cordons of the Nichan Iftikhar (highest)
or was the highest :
- Poland: Grand Cordons of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (highest 1974 to 1991, now Grand Cross)
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