Template:Country data South Africa

Template documentation

Template:Country data South Africa is an internal data container not intended to be transcluded directly. It is used indirectly by templates such as {{Flag}}, {{Flagicon}} and others.

Standard parameters

Parameter name	Value	Meaning
alias	South Africa	Main article name (South Africa)
flag alias	Flag of South Africa.svg	Image name (File:Flag of South Africa.svg, shown on right)

Flag variants

Label	Flag image (40px)	Image name
1910	File:South Africa Red Ensign.png	South Africa Red Ensign.png
1928	File:Flag of South Africa 1928-1994.svg	Flag of South Africa 1928-1994.svg
naval		Naval Ensign of South Africa.svg
air force	File:SAAF flag.png	SAAF flag.png

Military ensigns

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

• {{Navy|South Africa}} → South African Navy
• {{Flagicon|South Africa|naval}} →
  This template includes an air force ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Air force:
• {{Air force|South Africa}} → South African Air Force
• {{Flagicon|South Africa|air force}} →

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
ZAF (view)	ZAF	South Africa
RSA (view)	RSA	South Africa

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

• {{Flag|South Africa}} → South Africa
• {{Flagicon|South Africa}} →

Using a flag variant

• {{Flag|South Africa|1910}} → South Africa
• {{Flagicon|South Africa|1910}} →

Using a redirect alias

• {{Flagicon|ZAF}} →
• {{Flagcountry|ZAF}} → South Africa
• {{Flag|ZAF}} → ZAF

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

• Template:Country data TransvaalTransvaal

TemplateData

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TemplateData for Country data South Africa

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]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
No parameters specified

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