Template:Country data United Kingdom

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Template:Country data United Kingdom is an internal data container not intended to be transcluded directly. It is used indirectly by templates such as flag, flagnt, and others.

Standard parameters

Parameter name	Value	Meaning
alias	w:United Kingdom	Main article name (w:United Kingdom)
shortname alias	United Kingdom	(optional) Display name to be used for the wikilink, if alias is a disambiguated article name, for example
flag alias	Flag of the United Kingdom.svg	Image name (File:Flag of the United Kingdom (3-5).svg, shown on right)

Flag variants

Label	Flag image (40px)	Image name
civil		Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
government		Government Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
naval-RFA		British-Royal-Fleet-Auxiliary-Ensign.svg
naval-RMAS		British Royal Maritime Auxiliary Ensign.svg
naval-RNLI		Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg
1707		Flag of Great Britain (1707–1800).svg
military		Flag of the United Kingdom (3-5).svg
naval		Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
coast guard		Flag of Her Majesty's Coastguard.svg
marines		Flag of the Royal Marines.svg
army		Flag of the British Army.svg
air force		Ensign of the Royal Air Force.svg

Military ensigns

This template includes a military ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Armed forces:

• {{Armed forces|United Kingdom}} → British Armed Forces
• {{flagnt|United Kingdom|military}} →

This template includes a naval ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Navy:

• {{navy|United Kingdom}} → Royal Navy
• {{flagnt|United Kingdom|naval}} →

This template includes a coast guard ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Coast guard:

• {{Coast guard|United Kingdom}} → Template:Coast guard
• {{flagnt|United Kingdom|coast guard}} →

This template includes a marine ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Marines:

• {{marines|United Kingdom}} → Corps of Royal Marines
• {{flagnt|United Kingdom|marines}} →

This template includes an army ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Army:

• {{army|United Kingdom}} → British Army
• {{flagnt|United Kingdom|army}} →

This template includes an air force ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Air force:

• {{air force|United Kingdom}} → Royal Air Force
• {{flagnt|United Kingdom|air force}} →

Redirect aliases

This template can also be used via an alias name (implemented as a redirect to this template):

Alias name	{{flag|alias}} output	{{flagcountry|alias}} output
UK (view)	UK	United Kingdom
U.K. (view)	Template:Country data U.K.	Template:Country data U.K.
the United Kingdom (view)	Template:Country data the United Kingdom	Template:Country data the United Kingdom

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

• {{flag|United Kingdom}} → United Kingdom
• {{flagnt|United Kingdom}} →
• {{flagcountry|United Kingdom}} → United Kingdom

Using a flag variant

• {{flag|United Kingdom|civil}} → United Kingdom
• {{flagnt|United Kingdom|civil}} →

Using a redirect alias

• {{flagnt|UK}} →
• {{flagcountry|UK}} → United Kingdom
• {{flag|UK}} → UK

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

• Template:Country data Great BritainTemplate:Country data Great Britain
• Template:Country data Kingdom of Great BritainTemplate:Country data Kingdom of Great Britain
• Template:Country data British EmpireTemplate:Country data British Empire
• Template:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandTemplate:Country data United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
• Template:Country data Kingdom of EnglandTemplate:Country data Kingdom of England
• Template:Country data Kingdom of ScotlandTemplate:Country data Kingdom of Scotland

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