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.

This template is within the scope of WikiProject Flag Template, a collaborative effort to maintain flag templates on Wikipedia. A more thorough discussion of the flag template system, including parameters not described here, can be found on the project page.

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`		`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`		`Flag of the United Kingdom (3-5).svg`

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

Military ensigns

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

{{naval|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} → United Kingdom 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}} →

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

TemplateData for Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

<templatedata> {

 "description": "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.",
 "params": {}

} </templatedata>

This is the documentation for Template:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is automatically generated by Template:Country showdata.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
Please purge the cache after making any changes to this template.
Any categories should be added to the template's /doc subpage, which does not exist yet.