Template:Country data East Germany

Template documentation

Template:Country data East Germany 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	German Democratic Republic	Main article name (German Democratic Republic)
shortname alias	East Germany	(optional) Display name to be used for the wikilink, if alias is a disambiguated article name, for example
flag alias	Flag of East Germany.svg	Image name (File:Flag of East Germany.svg, shown on right)

Flag variants

Label	Flag image (40px)	Image name
naval	File:Flag of warships of VM (East Germany).svg	Flag of warships of VM (East Germany).svg
naval	File:Flag of warships of VM (East Germany).svg	Flag of warships of VM (East Germany).svg

Military ensigns

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

• {{Navy|East Germany}} → Volksmarine
• {{Flagicon|East Germany|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
GDR (view)	GDR	East Germany
DDR (view)	DDR	East Germany
German Democratic Republic (view)	German Democratic Republic	East Germany

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

• {{Flag|East Germany}} → East Germany
• {{Flagicon|East Germany}} →
• {{Flagcountry|East Germany}} → East Germany

Using a flag variant

• {{Flag|East Germany|naval}} → East Germany
• {{Flagicon|East Germany|naval}} →

Using a redirect alias

• {{Flagicon|GDR}} →
• {{Flagcountry|GDR}} → East Germany
• {{Flag|GDR}} → GDR

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

• Template:Country data GermanyGermany

TemplateData

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TemplateData for Country data East Germany

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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