Template:Country data British Empire

Template documentation

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

File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg

Standard parameters

Parameter name	Value	Meaning
alias	British Empire	Main article name (British Empire)
shortname alias	United Kingdom	(optional) Display name to be used for the wikilink, if alias is a disambiguated article name, for example
flag alias	Flag of the United Kingdom.svg	Image name (File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg, shown on right)

Flag variants

Label	Flag image (40px)	Image name
1606	File:Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg	Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg
east1707	File:Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg	Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg
red	File:British-Red-Ensign-1707.svg	British-Red-Ensign-1707.svg
blue	File:British-Blue-Ensign-1707.svg	British-Blue-Ensign-1707.svg
white	File:British-White-Ensign-1707.svg	British-White-Ensign-1707.svg
east1801	File:Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg	Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg
civil		Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
government		Government Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
naval		Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
air force	File:Ensign of the Royal Air Force.svg	Ensign of the Royal Air Force.svg
army		Flag of the British Army.svg

Military ensigns

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

• {{Navy|British Empire}} → Royal Navy
• {{Flagicon|British Empire|naval}} →
  This template includes an air force ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Air force:
• {{Air force|British Empire}} → Royal Air Force
• {{Flagicon|British Empire|air force}} →
  This template includes an army ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Army:
• {{Army|British Empire}} → British Army
• {{Flagicon|British Empire|army}} →

Example usage

• {{Flag|British Empire}} → British Empire
• {{Flagicon|British Empire}} →
• {{Flagcountry|British Empire}} → United Kingdom

Using a flag variant

• {{Flag|British Empire|1606}} → British Empire
• {{Flagicon|British Empire|1606}} →

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

• Template:Country data United KingdomUnited Kingdom
• Template:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
• Template:Country data Kingdom of Great BritainKingdom of Great Britain
• Template:Country data EnglandEngland
• Template:Country data ScotlandScotland

TemplateData

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TemplateData for Country data British Empire

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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