Template:Country data Great Britain

Template documentation

This is the documentation for Template:Country data Great Britain. It is automatically generated by Template:Country showdata

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.

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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 (Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg, shown above 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

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:

Other information

This template is intended to be used for sport-related instances, where the United Kingdom is often known as Great Britain. Please use Template:Country data United Kingdom for non-sport references.

Both the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) use GBR as the three-letter country code for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. However, the two-letter country code UK is a very frequent abbreviation for the United Kingdom. Consequently, Template:Country data GBR is the alias redirect for this template (matching the sport-related usage), and Template:Country data UK is the alias redirect for the "United Kingdom" template.