Template:Country data China

Template documentation

Template:Country data China 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	China	Main article name (China)
flag alias	Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg	Image name (File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg, shown on right)

Flag variants

Label	Flag image (40px)	Image name
1862		Flag of the Qing Dynasty (1862-1889).svg
1889		Flag of the Qing Dynasty (1889-1912).svg
1912		Flag of the Republic of China (1912-1928).svg
1929	File:Flag of the Republic of China (Pantone).svg	Flag of the Republic of China (Pantone).svg
1949		Flag of China (WFB 2000).svg
2004		Flag of China (WFB 2004).svg
2009		Flag of China (WFB 2009).svg
military		People's Liberation Army Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg
naval		Naval Ensign of the People's Republic of China.svg
marines		Naval Ensign of the People's Republic of China.svg
military		People's Liberation Army Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg
air force		Air Force Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg
army		Ground Force Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg

Military ensigns

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

• {{Navy|China}} → People's Liberation Army Navy
• {{Flagicon|China|naval}} →
  This template includes an air force ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Air force:
• {{Air force|China}} → People's Liberation Army Air Force
• {{Flagicon|China|air force}} →
  This template includes a marine ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Marines:
• {{Marines|China}} → People's Liberation Army Marine Corps
• {{Flagicon|China|marines}} →
  This template includes a marine ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Armed forces:
• {{Armed forces|China}} → People's Liberation Army
• {{Flagicon|China|military}} →
  This nation's coast guard ensign is the same as its national flag, so Template:Coast guard produces the following:
• {{Coast guard|China}} → China Coast Guard
  This template includes an army ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Army:
• {{Army|China}} → People's Liberation Army Ground Force
• {{Flagicon|China|army}} →

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
CHN (view)	CHN	China
People's Republic of China (view)	Error creating thumbnail: People's Republic of China	China
China, People's Republic of (view)	Error creating thumbnail: China, People's Republic of	China
China (People's Republic of) (view)	Error creating thumbnail: China (People's Republic of)	China
PRC (view)	Error creating thumbnail: PRC	China

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

• {{Flag|China}} → Error creating thumbnail: China
• {{Flagicon|China}} →

Using a flag variant

• {{Flag|China|1862}} → China
• {{Flagicon|China|1862}} →

Using a redirect alias

• {{Flagicon|CHN}} →
• {{Flagcountry|CHN}} → China
• {{Flag|CHN}} → Error creating thumbnail: CHN

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

• Template:Country data Qing dynastyError creating thumbnail: Qing dynasty
• Template:Country data Republic of China Republic of China
• Template:Country data Republic of China (1912–1949) Republic of China (1912–1949)

Other information

Country data templates are also available for three of the five autonomous regions, the two Special Administrative Regions (SARs) of China, and the region of Tibet:

Template:Country data Guangxi Zhuang	Error creating thumbnail: Guangxi Zhuang
Template:Country data Hong Kong	Hong Kong
Template:Country data Inner Mongolia	Error creating thumbnail: Inner Mongolia
Template:Country data Macau	Macau
Template:Country data Ningxia Hui	Error creating thumbnail: Ningxia Hui
Template:Country data Tibet	Tibet	Refers to the geographical/ethnical region; don't use for the autonomous region

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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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