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Given an ISO country code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2), this template returns the matching country.
It has two optional parameters:
|article=, which if it set to yes will return the article "the" if needed;|mode=, which can optionally take one out of three values:sort, it will rearrange for sortkey.unique, it will return " (country)" if needed.link, it will create a link.Basic usage
| country code | default | |mode=sort
|
|mode=unique
|
|mode=link
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
{{iso2country|ES}}
|
Spain | Spain | Spain | Spain |
{{iso2country|US}}
|
United States | United States | United States | United States |
{{iso2country|IE}}
|
Republic of Ireland | Ireland | Republic of Ireland | Republic of Ireland |
{{iso2country|CD}}
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo | Congo, D | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
{{iso2country|GE}}
|
Georgia | Georgia | Georgia (country) | Georgia |
Usage with |article=yes
| country code | default | |mode=sort
|
|mode=unique
|
|mode=link
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
{{iso2country|ES}}
|
Spain | Spain | Spain | Spain |
{{iso2country|US}}
|
the United States | United States | the United States | the United States |
{{iso2country|IE}}
|
the Republic of Ireland | Ireland | the Republic of Ireland | the Republic of Ireland |
{{iso2country|CD}}
|
the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Congo, D | the Democratic Republic of the Congo | the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
{{iso2country|GE}}
|
Georgia | Georgia | Georgia (country) | Georgia |
Deprecated parameter
The misnamed |template=yes parameter has been superseded by |mode=unique. Continued use is tracked in ‹The template Cat is being considered for merging.› Category:Pages using iso2country with unknown parameters.
