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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.
Template:Flag icon displays a flag of the named parameter in "icon" size, currently 23×15 pixels maximally (defined in Template:Flag icon/core), plus a one-pixel border. The image also has a clickable link to the associated article.
These were defined by October 2010 as part of the Unicode 6.0 support for emoji, as an alternative to encoding separate characters for each country flag. Although they can be displayed as Roman letters, it is intended that implementations may choose to display them in other ways, such as by using national flags .
Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Country 1 Display the small flag icon of this country. A flag will only be displayed if the related template {{country data 1 }} exists with the flag alias parameter (otherwise a transparent placeholder is used to preserve text alignment inside lists). Example Germany String required Custom name name Custom name to be ...
Displays a flag of the named parameter in "icon" size, currently 23×15 pixels plus a one pixel border. This template is very similar to Template:Flag icon, except the image is not linked to an article, i.e. it is "purely decorative" per World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
Compare with {{flag|Kingdom of Italy}} → Kingdom of Italy, in which "Kingdom of Italy" is the display text for the wikilink. Therefore, the choice of flag country or flag depends on the desired display text; in all other respects, the templates are identical. {{flag country|South Korea|name=Korea}} → Korea
Generally, flag icons should not be used in infoboxes, even when there is a "country", "nationality" or equivalent field: they could be unnecessarily distracting and might give undue prominence to one field among many. Flag icons should only be inserted in infoboxes in those cases where they convey information in addition to the text.
A diagonally divided flag between two or more nation states may be used when more than one country is a major user of a language. Examples of this are the flags of the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada to indicate the English language, the flags of China and Taiwan to represent Mandarin, the flags of France, Belgium, and Canada to represent the French language, the flags of Spain ...