Template:Country data Union of South Africa

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Template:Country data Union of 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	Union of South Africa	Main article name (Union of South Africa)
shortname alias	South Africa	(optional) Display name to be used for the wikilink, if alias is a disambiguated article name, for example
flag alias	Flag of South Africa (1928-1994).svg	Image name (File:Flag of South Africa (1928-1994).svg, shown on right)

Flag variants

Label	Flag image (40px)	Image name
1910		Red Ensign of South Africa (1910–1912).svg
1912		Red Ensign of South Africa (1912–1951).svg
1910blue		Blue Ensign of South Africa (1910–1912).svg
1912blue		Blue Ensign of South Africa (1912–1928).svg
naval		Naval Ensign of South Africa (1959–1981).svg
marines		Naval Ensign of South Africa (1952–1959).svg
military		Ensign of the South African Defence Force (1947–1981).svg
air force		Air Force Ensign of South Africa (1958–1967, 1970–1981).svg
army		Flag of the South African Army (1951–1966).png

Military ensigns

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

• {{navy|Union of South Africa}} → South African Navy
• {{flagicon|Union of South Africa|naval}} →
  

This template includes an air force ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Air force:

• {{air force|Union of South Africa}} → South African Air Force
• {{flagicon|Union of South Africa|air force}} →
  

This template includes a marine ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Marines:

• {{marines|Union of South Africa}} → South African Corps of Marines
• {{flagicon|Union of South Africa|marines}} →
  

This template includes a marine ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Armed forces:

• {{Armed forces|Union of South Africa}} → South African Defence Force
• {{flagicon|Union of South Africa|military}} →
  

This template includes an army ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Army:

• {{army|Union of South Africa}} → South African Army
• {{flagicon|Union of South Africa|army}} →

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
South African Union (view)	South African Union	South Africa

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

• {{flag|Union of South Africa}} → Union of South Africa
• {{flagicon|Union of South Africa}} →
• {{flagcountry|Union of South Africa}} → South Africa

Using a flag variant

• {{flag|Union of South Africa|1910}} → Union of South Africa
• {{flagicon|Union of South Africa|1910}} →

Using a redirect alias

• {{flagicon|South African Union}} →
• {{flagcountry|South African Union}} → South Africa
• {{flag|South African Union}} → South African Union

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

• Template:Country data South AfricaSouth Africa
• Template:Country data South African RepublicSouth African Republic

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 Union of 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]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
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