Template:Flag country

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{{country data {{{1}}}|flag country/core|variant=|size=|name=}}

Template documentation

Description

{{flag country|nation|variant|size=|name=}}

Produces a flag icon attached to a wikilinked article. This template is similar to the more widely used {{Flag }} template, but is more useful for two situations described below.

Parameters

  • |1= (first unnamed parameter): Use either the name of the nation or in some cases, a three-letter country code (e.g. ISO 3166-1 alpha-3)
  • |variant= or |2= (optional parameter): Specifies an alternative (historical) flag to use. This parameter is documented by the appropriate template in Category:Country data templates.
  • |size= (optional): Can be used to change the flag icon size.
  • |name= (optional): The display text of the target wikilink is usually automatically generated, but can always be over-ridden with the name parameter.

Usage examples

  1. {{flag country|ITA}}Template:Country data ITA
    In this case, the country code for Italy (ITA) is used to produce the correct flag and wikilink. In many cases, it would probably be preferable to use {{Flag }} to produce the same result, such as {{flag|Italy}} for this example. However, {{Flag country }} could be used within other templates (such as infoboxes) so that country codes can be used for those template parameters.
  2. {{flag country|ITA|1861}}Template:Country data ITA
    Similar to the first example, but with a flag variant parameter to select a historical flag image. (The wikilinked article is [[Italy]].)
  3. {{flag country|Kingdom of Italy}}Template:Country data Kingdom of Italy
    In this example, a different country data template is used, to select an alternative article for the wikilink (in this case, [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]]). Compare with {{flag|Kingdom of Italy}}Template:Country data Kingdom of Italy, in which "Kingdom of Italy" is the display text for the wikilink. Therefore, the choice of flag country or flag depends on the desired display text; in all other respects, the templates are identical.
  4. {{flag country|South Korea|name=Korea}}Template:Country data South Korea

Tracking categories

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

Flag country

Produces a flag icon next to a wikilinked country name.

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Nation1

The name or code of the country.

Stringrequired
Variantvariant 2

The flag variant to be displayed.

Stringoptional
Sizesize

The size of the flag icon.

Numberoptional

See also