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Usage
Given an ISO country code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2), this template returns the matching country.
It has two optional parameters:
|article=, which if it set toyeswill return the article "the" if needed;|mode=, which can optionally take one out of three values:
- if set to
sort, it will rearrange for sortkey. - if set to
unique, it will return " (country)" if needed. - if set to
link, it will create a link.
- if set to
Basic usage
| country code | default | |mode=sort
|
|mode=unique
|
|mode=link
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
((iso2country|ES))
|
Spain | Spain | Spain | Spain |
((iso2country|US))
|
United States | United States | United States | United States |
((iso2country|IE))
|
Republic of Ireland | Ireland | Republic of Ireland | Republic of Ireland |
((iso2country|CD))
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo | Congo, D | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
((iso2country|GE))
|
Georgia | Georgia | Georgia (country) | Georgia |
Usage with |article=yes
| country code | default | |mode=sort
|
|mode=unique
|
|mode=link
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
((iso2country|ES))
|
Spain | Spain | Spain | Spain |
((iso2country|US))
|
the United States | United States | the United States | the United States |
((iso2country|IE))
|
the Republic of Ireland | Ireland | the Republic of Ireland | the Republic of Ireland |
((iso2country|CD))
|
the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Congo, D | the Democratic Republic of the Congo | the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
((iso2country|GE))
|
Georgia | Georgia | Georgia (country) | Georgia |
Deprecated parameter
The misnamed |template=yes parameter has been superseded by |mode=unique. Continued use is tracked in Category:Pages using iso2country with unknown parameters.
See also
- ((ISO 639 name))
- ((iso2nationality))