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Template:Country data Great Britain is an internal data container not intended to be transcluded directly. It is used indirectly by templates such as flag, flagicon, and others.
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Standard parameters
Parameter name
Value
Meaning
alias
undefined!
Main article name ([[]])
shortname alias
Great Britain
(optional) Display name to be used for the wikilink, if alias is a disambiguated article name, for example
Both the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) use GBR as the three-letter country code for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. However, the two-letter country code UK is a very frequent abbreviation for the United Kingdom. Consequently, Template:Country data GBR is the alias redirect for this template (matching the sport-related usage), and Template:Country data UK is the alias redirect for the "United Kingdom" template.
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.
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