Template:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Template documentation

Template:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	Main article name (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
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
civil		Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
government		Government Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
RFA		British-Royal-Fleet-Auxiliary-Ensign.svg
1801	File:Flag of the United Kingdom (WFB 2000).svg	Flag of the United Kingdom (WFB 2000).svg
naval		Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
marines		Flag of the Royal Marines.svg
air force		Flag of the Royal Flying Corps.svg
army	File:Flag of the United Kingdom (3-5).svg	Flag of the United Kingdom (3-5).svg

Military ensigns

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

• {{Navy|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} → Royal Navy
• {{Flagicon|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|naval}} →
  This template includes an air force ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Air force:
• {{Air force|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} → Royal Flying Corps
• {{Flagicon|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|air force}} →
  This template includes a marine ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Marines:
• {{Marines|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} → Royal Marines
• {{Flagicon|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|marines}} →
  This template includes an army ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Army:
• {{Army|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} → British Army
• {{Flagicon|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|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
UKGBI (view)	UKGBI	United Kingdom

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

• {{Flag|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} → United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
• {{Flagicon|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} →
• {{Flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} → United Kingdom

Using a flag variant

• {{Flag|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|civil}} → United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
• {{Flagicon|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|civil}} →

Using a redirect alias

• {{Flagicon|UKGBI}} →
• {{Flagcountry|UKGBI}} → United Kingdom
• {{Flag|UKGBI}} → UKGBI

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

• Template:Country data United KingdomUnited Kingdom
• Template:Country data Kingdom of Great BritainKingdom of Great Britain
• Template:Country data British EmpireBritish Empire

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 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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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