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

This template is within the scope of WikiProject Flag Template, a collaborative effort to maintain flag templates on Wikipedia. A more thorough discussion of the flag template system, including parameters not described here, can be found on the project page.

Standard parameters

Parameter name	Value	Meaning
`alias`	`Northern Ireland`	Main article name (Northern Ireland)
`flag alias`	`Ulster Banner.svg`	Image name (File:Ulster Banner.svg, shown on right)

Flag variants

Label	Flag image (40px)	Image name
`assembly`		`Flag of Northern Ireland Assembly.svg`
`saltire`		`St Patrick's saltire.svg`
`union`		`Flag of the United Kingdom.svg`

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
`NIR` (view)	NIR	Northern Ireland

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

((flag|Northern Ireland)) → Northern Ireland
((flagicon|Northern Ireland)) →

Using a flag variant

((flag|Northern Ireland|assembly)) → Northern Ireland
((flagicon|Northern Ireland|assembly)) →

Using a redirect alias

((flagicon|NIR)) →
((flagcountry|NIR)) → Northern Ireland
((flag|NIR)) → NIR

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

Template:Country data Ulster Ulster

Other information

At present, Northern Ireland does not have any official flag. This template should only be used for instances where the Ulster Banner is used in reliable sources as the flag for Northern Ireland. Typically, these are sport-related articles, such as those involving the Northern Ireland national football team or its players, athletes competing for Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games, golfers from Northern Ireland, etc. The advice at WP:IMOS FLAGS should be reviewed before using this template.

Use Template:noflag to correctly align text in lists of nations with flag icons, but for which a flag for Northern Ireland would be inappropriate. For example:

Northern Ireland uses ((noflag|[[Northern Ireland]]))
Northern Ireland uses ((flag|Northern Ireland))

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Country data Northern Ireland in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Country data Northern Ireland

This template should not be used directly. It is used indirectly by flag templates such as Template:Flag and Template:Flagicon. See Category:Flag template system for a full list of flag templates and Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template for further documentation.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
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