Template:Country data Commonwealth of Independent States

Template documentation

Template:Country data Commonwealth of Independent States 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	Commonwealth of Independent States	Main article name (Commonwealth of Independent States)
shortname alias	CIS	(optional) Display name to be used for the wikilink, if alias is a disambiguated article name, for example
flag alias	Flag of the CIS.svg	Image name (File:Flag of the CIS.svg, shown on right)

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
CIS (view)	CIS	CIS

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

• {{flag|Commonwealth of Independent States}} →

Commonwealth of Independent States

• {{flagicon|Commonwealth of Independent States}} →
• {{flagcountry|Commonwealth of Independent States}} →

CIS

Using a redirect alias

• {{flagicon|CIS}} →
• {{flagcountry|CIS}} →

CIS

• {{flag|CIS}} →

CIS

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

• Template:Country data Soviet UnionSoviet Union

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 Commonwealth of Independent States

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]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
No parameters specified

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