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-1946	File:Naval ensign of South Africa (1946-1951).svg	Naval ensign of South Africa (1946-1951).svg
naval-1952	File:Naval Ensign of South Africa (1952-1981).png	Naval Ensign of South Africa (1952-1981).png
naval-1981	File:Naval Ensign of South Africa (1981-1994).png	Naval Ensign of South Africa (1981-1994).png
naval		Naval Ensign of South Africa.svg
air force	File:Ensign of the South African Air Force.svg	Ensign of the South African Air Force.svg

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

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for this template in articles based on this TemplateData.

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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