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This template is used to display a small flag icon next to a wikilinked country name. It is related to the {{flagicon}} template.

{{flag|country identifier|optional variant|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.

Wiki markup	Displays	Notes
`{{flag\|United States}}`	USA	Note that both instances link to USA.
`{{flag\|USA}}`	USA	Note that both instances link to USA.
`{{flag\|Suomi\|link=:Category:Suomi}}`	Template:Country data Sandbox	Link text to another article
`{{flag\|Germany}}`	Deutschland	All three instances link to Deutschland.
`{{flag\|Deutschland}}`	Deutschland
`{{flag\|GER}}`	Deutschland
`{{flag\|Schweiz\|size=10px}}`	Schweiz	The size parameter can be used to control the image dimensions. " Schweiz" is the default size.
`{{flag\|Schweiz\|size=30px}}`	Schweiz

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 | <code><nowiki>{{flag|Germany}}</nowiki></code> || {{flag|Germany}} ||rowspan=3| All three instances link to [[Deutschland]].