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

Usage
 country identifier&#124;optional variant&#124;name=alternate 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
 * alternate text string, specified by the name' parameter, is used to display alternate text

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

Examples
he:תבנית:דגל fr:Modèle:Pays sl:Predloga:Zastava