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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Flag country. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

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{{flag country|nation|variant|size=|name=}}

Produces a flag icon attached to a wikilinked article. This template is similar to the more widely used {{flag}} template, but is more useful for two situations described below.

Parameters

• |1= (first unnamed parameter): Use either the name of the nation or in some cases, a three-letter country code (e.g. ISO 3166-1 alpha-3)
• |variant=or|2= (optional parameter): Specifies an alternative (historical) flag to use. This parameter is documented by the appropriate template in Category:Country data templates.
• |size= (optional): Can be used to change the flag icon size.
• |name= (optional): The display text of the target wikilink is usually automatically generated, but can always be over-ridden with the name parameter.

1. {{flag country|ITA}} →  Italy

   In this case, the country code for Italy (ITA) is used to produce the correct flag and wikilink. In many cases, it would probably be preferable to use {{flag}} to produce the same result, such as {{flag|Italy}} for this example. However, {{flag country}} could be used within other templates (such as infoboxes) so that country codes can be used for those template parameters.

2. {{flag country|ITA|1861}} →  Italy

   Similar to the first example, but with a flag variant parameter to select a historical flag image. (The wikilinked article is [[Italy]].)

3. {{flag country|Kingdom of Italy}} →  Italy

   In this example, a different country data template is used, to select an alternative article for the wikilink (in this case, [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]]). Compare with {{flag|Kingdom of Italy}} →  Kingdom of Italy, in which "Kingdom of Italy" is the display text for the wikilink. Therefore, the choice of flag countryorflag depends on the desired display text; in all other respects, the templates are identical.

4. {{flag country|South Korea|name=Korea}} →  Korea

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