Template:Country data United Kingdom

Template documentation

Template:Country data United Kingdom 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	United Kingdom	Main article name (United Kingdom)
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
naval-RFA		British-Royal-Fleet-Auxiliary-Ensign.svg
naval-RMAS		British Royal Maritime Auxiliary Ensign.svg
naval-RNLI		Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg
marines		Flag of the Royal Marines.svg
1707		Flag of Great Britain (1707–1800).svg
1801	[[File:{{{flag alias-1801}}}|40px|border]]	{{{flag alias-1801}}}
2004	[[File:{{{flag alias-2004}}}|40px|border]]	{{{flag alias-2004}}}
2009	[[File:{{{flag alias-2009}}}|40px|border]]	{{{flag alias-2009}}}
naval		Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
marines		Flag of the Royal Marines.svg
military		Flag of the United Kingdom (3-5).svg
coast guard		Flag of Her Majesty's Coastguard.png
air force		Ensign of the Royal Air Force.svg
army		Flag of the British Army.svg

Military ensigns

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

• {{navy|United Kingdom}} → Royal Navy
• {{flagicon|United Kingdom|naval}} →
  

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

• {{air force|United Kingdom}} → Royal Air Force
• {{flagicon|United Kingdom|air force}} →
  

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

• {{marines|United Kingdom}} → Template:Marines
• {{flagicon|United Kingdom|marines}} →
  

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

• {{Armed forces|United Kingdom}} → British Armed Forces
• {{flagicon|United Kingdom|military}} →
  

This template includes a coast guard ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Coast guard:

• {{coast guard|United Kingdom}} → Template:Coast guard
• {{flagicon|United Kingdom|coast guard}} →
  

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

• {{army|United Kingdom}} → British Army
• {{flagicon|United Kingdom|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
UK (view)	Template:Country data UK	Template:Country data UK
U.K. (view)	Template:Country data U.K.	Template:Country data U.K.
the United Kingdom (view)	Template:Country data the United Kingdom	Template:Country data the United Kingdom

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

• {{flag|United Kingdom}} → United Kingdom
• {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} →

Using a flag variant

• {{flag|United Kingdom|civil}} → United Kingdom
• {{flagicon|United Kingdom|civil}} →

Using a redirect alias

• {{flagicon|UK}} → Template:Country data UK
• {{flagcountry|UK}} → Template:Country data UK
• {{flag|UK}} → Template:Country data UK

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

• Template:Country data Great BritainTemplate:Country data Great Britain
• Template:Country data Kingdom of Great BritainTemplate:Country data Kingdom of Great Britain
• Template:Country data British EmpireBritish Empire
• Template:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandTemplate:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
• Template:Country data Kingdom of EnglandTemplate:Country data Kingdom of England
• Template:Country data Kingdom of ScotlandTemplate:Country data Kingdom of Scotland

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Country data United Kingdom in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Country data United Kingdom

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
No parameters specified

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