Template:Country data Washington, D.C.

Template documentation

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

Flag variants

Label	Flag image (40px)	Image name
1888		Flag of Washington, D.C. (1888).png
1917		Flag of Washington, D.C. (1917).png
1937		Flag of Washington, D.C. (1937).png
1938		Flag of Washington, D.C. (1938).svg
naval		Flag of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia.png

Military ensigns

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

• {{Navy|Washington, D.C.}} → Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia
• {{Flagicon|Washington, D.C.|naval}} →
  This nation's air force ensign is the same as its national flag, so Template:Air force produces the following:
• {{Air force|Washington, D.C.}} → District of Columbia Air National Guard
  This nation's army ensign is the same as its national flag, so Template:Army produces the following:
• {{Army|Washington, D.C.}} → District of Columbia Army National Guard

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
District of Columbia (view)	District of Columbia	Washington

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

• {{Flag|Washington, D.C.}} → Washington, D.C.
• {{Flagicon|Washington, D.C.}} →
• {{Flagcountry|Washington, D.C.}} → Washington

Using a flag variant

• {{Flag|Washington, D.C.|1888}} → Washington, D.C.
• {{Flagicon|Washington, D.C.|1888}} →

Using a redirect alias

• {{Flagicon|District of Columbia}} →
• {{Flagcountry|District of Columbia}} → Washington
• {{Flag|District of Columbia}} → District of Columbia

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template, used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools.
TemplateData for Country data Washington, D.C.

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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