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This template is used to display a small flag icon next to a wikilinked country name. It is related to the {{flagicon}} and {{flagcountry}} templates, but offers more options in terms of the text string displayed.

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template for the main documentation/discussion page for the flag templates system.

Usage

{{flag|country identifier|optional variant|name=alternative text string|size=maximum width and/or height of the flag image}}

  • country identifier is the common name of the country (e.g. "United States"), a common alias (e.g. "US"), or a standard country code such as those listed at ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
  • variant is an optional second parameter that can be used to display a flag variation, such as a historical flag. The list of variants for each country is documented on the appropriate template page, such as Template:Country data Germany
  • alternative text string, this optional value, specified by the name parameter, is used to display alternative text
  • size, this optional value is specified by the size parameter, and is used to specify the maximum width and/or height of the flag image. This parameter is specified using standard image syntax.


See the prefix index for the templates latently called by this one.

Examples

Wiki markup Displays Notes
{{flag|United States}}  United States Note that both instances link to United States.
{{flag|USA}}  USA
{{flag|Germany}}  Germany All three instances link to Germany.
In addition to the ISO country codes, those used by FIFA, IOC, etc. are also supported.
{{flag|DEU}}  DEU
{{flag|GER}}  GER
{{flag|Germany|empire}} File:Flag of the German Empire.svg Germany Flag variations can be used with either country names or country codes.
{{flag|DEU|empire}} File:Flag of the German Empire.svg DEU
{{flag|CAN|name=Canadian}}  Canadian The name parameter can be used to change the display string but keep the link to the correct article.
{{flag|Canada|1957|name=Canadian}} File:Canadian Red Ensign (1957-1965).svg Canadian The name parameter can also be used when flag variants are specified.
{{flag|Texas}}  Texas Flags are also available for several sub-national and multi-national entities such as US states, Canadian provinces, the Commonwealth of Nations, and the European Union.
A complete list can be found at Category:Country data templates.
{{flag|British Columbia|name=BC}}  BC
{{flag|Commonwealth of Nations|name=Cmnwlth}}  Cmnwlth
{{flag|EU}}  EU
{{flag|Switzerland|size=14px}}  Switzerland The size parameter can be used to control the image dimensions.
"  Switzerland" is the default size.
{{flag|Switzerland|size=28px}}  Switzerland

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

Flag

This template displays a small flag icon next to a wikilinked country name

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Country identifier1

Common name of the country (e.g. 'United States'), a common alias (e.g. 'US'), or a standard country code

Stringrequired
Variant2

Identifies a flag variant to be used instead of the standard flag, e.g. 1815

Stringoptional
Alternative textname

Display alternative text instead of the standard country name

Stringoptional
Maximum dimensionsize

The maximum width or height, specified via standard 'extended image syntax' (e.g. x30px)

Stringoptional

See also