Location of Map caption (orange)
Template intended to simplify adding a standardized and formatted caption below a map indicating the location of something (e.g. a country), possibly referring to the map's main region and optionally also to a shown subregion. Original use within infoboxes (e.g. see articles on European countries). For a complete set of elements of reasonable length, a width of (minimally) 250px (without extra padding or margins) should be available.
Required parameters shown in bold italics
| Parameter | Description | Default |
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| countryprefix |
| – |
| country |
| < article name > |
| location |
| – |
| location_color |
| orange |
| region |
| – |
| region_color |
| white |
| subregion |
| – |
| subregion_color |
| tan |
| legend |
| – |
Ifcountry, regionorsubregion is exactly the name of a page in article space, the template automatically creates a link to it. You can still put a link here manually, using the usual syntax.
| Code | Raw result (in unformatted box, compare to handling in Infobox) | |
{{map caption}}
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{{map caption |region=Europe |legend=European location legend en.png}}
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{{map caption |countryprefix=the |region=Europe |subregion=the [[European Union]] |legend=European location legend en.png}}
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Typical sample for an article on a European Union member that needs no "the" before its name, for otherwise identical output:{{map caption |region=Europe |subregion=EU |legend=European location legend en.png}}
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| Infobox usage of code (as intended) — in which the alignment, the padding/margins, and font are rendered differently (this template adjusts for that infobox): | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sample for article named 'Armenia', about a non-European country
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![Location of Map caption (orange) in Europe (white) – [Legend]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_location_BLR.png)
![Location of the Map caption (orange) – in Europe (tan & white) – in the European Union (tan) [Legend]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EU_location_NED.png)
