Template:Country data Great Britain

Template documentation

Template:Country data Great Britain is an internal data container not intended to be transcluded directly. It is used indirectly by templates such as flag, flagicon, and others.

This template is within the scope of WikiProject Flag Template, a collaborative effort to maintain flag templates on Wikipedia. A more thorough discussion of the flag template system, including parameters not described here, can be found on the project page.

Standard parameters

Parameter name	Value	Meaning
`alias`	`United Kingdom`	Main article name (United Kingdom)
`shortname alias`	`Great Britain`	(optional) Display name to be used for the wikilink, if `alias` is a disambiguated article name, for example
`flag alias`	`Flag of the United Kingdom.svg`	Image name (File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg, shown on right)

Redirect aliases

This template can also be used via an alias name (implemented as a redirect to this template):

Alias name	`{{flag\|alias}}` output	`{{flagcountry\|alias}}` output
`GBR` (view)	GBR	Great Britain
`Great Britain and N.I.` (view)	Great Britain and N.I.	Great Britain

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

{{flag|Great Britain}} → Great Britain
{{flagicon|Great Britain}} →
{{flagcountry|Great Britain}} → Great Britain

Using a redirect alias

{{flagicon|GBR}} →
{{flagcountry|GBR}} → Great Britain
{{flag|GBR}} → GBR

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see a monthly parameter usage report for this template in articles.

TemplateData for Country data Great Britain

This template should not be used directly. It is used indirectly by flag templates such as Template:Flag and Template:Flagicon. See Category:Flag template system for a full list of flag templates and Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template for further documentation.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
No parameters specified

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