Template:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Template documentation

This is the documentation for Template:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is automatically generated by Template:Country showdata

Template:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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 of Great Britain and Ireland`	Main article name (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
`shortname alias`	`United Kingdom`	(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)

Flag variants

Label	Flag image (40px)	Image name
`civil`		`Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg`
`government`		`Government Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg`
`RFA`		`British-Royal-Fleet-Auxiliary-Ensign.svg`
`naval`		`Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg`

Military ensigns

This template includes a naval ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Navy:

{{navy|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} → Royal Navy
{{flagicon|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|naval}} →

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
`UKGBI (`view`)`	UKGBI	United Kingdom

Example usage

{{flag|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} → United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
{{flagicon|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} →
{{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} → United Kingdom

Using a flag variant

{{flag|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|civil}} → United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
{{flagicon|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|civil}} →

Using a redirect alias

{{flagicon|UKGBI}} →
{{flagcountry|UKGBI}} → United Kingdom
{{flag|UKGBI}} → UKGBI

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates: