Template:Flag/doc

This template is used to display a small flag icon next to a wikilinked country name. It is related to the flagicon and flagcountry templates, but offers more options in terms of the text string displayed.

See Wikipedia:Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template for the main documentation/discussion page for the flag templates system.

Usage
 country identifier&#124;optional variant&#124;name=alternative text string 


 * country identifier is the common name of the country (e.g. "United States"), a common alias (e.g. "US"), or a standard country code such as those listed at ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
 * variant is an optional second parameter that can be used to display a flag variation, such as a historical flag. The list of variants for each country is documented on the appropriate template page, such as Template:Country data Germany
 * alternative text string, specified by the name parameter, is used to display alternative text

See the prefix index for the templates latently called by this one.