Template:Country data Soviet Union

Template documentation

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

Standard parameters

Parameter name	Value	Meaning
alias	Soviet Union	Main article name (Soviet Union)
flag alias	Flag of the Soviet Union.svg	Image name (File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg, shown above right)

Flag variants

Label	Flag image (40px)	Image name
1922		Flag of the Soviet Union (1923).svg
1923		Flag of the Soviet Union (1923-1955).svg
1955		Flag of the Soviet Union (1955-1980).svg
naval-1924		Naval Ensign of the Soviet Union 1923.svg
naval-1935		Naval Ensign of the Soviet Union 1935.svg
naval		Naval Ensign of the Soviet Union.svg

Military ensigns

This template includes a naval ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Navy:

• {{navy|Soviet Union}} → Soviet Navy
• {{flagicon|Soviet Union|naval}} →

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
URS (view)	URS	Soviet Union
USSR (view)	USSR	Soviet Union
SUN (view)	SUN	Soviet Union
the Soviet Union (view)	the Soviet Union	Soviet Union

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

• {{flag|Soviet Union}} → Soviet Union
• {{flagicon|Soviet Union}} →

Using a flag variant

• {{flag|Soviet Union|1922}} → Soviet Union
• {{flagicon|Soviet Union|1922}} →

Using a redirect alias

• {{flagicon|URS}} →
• {{flagcountry|URS}} → Soviet Union
• {{flag|URS}} → URS

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

• Template:Country data Commonwealth of Independent StatesCommonwealth of Independent States

Other information

Country_data templates are also available for each of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union:

Template:Country data Armenian SSR	Armenian SSR
Template:Country data Azerbaijan SSR	Azerbaijan SSR
Template:Country data Byelorussian SSR	Byelorussian SSR
Template:Country data Estonian SSR	Estonian SSR
Template:Country data Georgian SSR	Georgian SSR
Template:Country data Kazakh SSR	Kazakh SSR
Template:Country data Kirghiz SSR	Kirghiz SSR
Template:Country data Latvian SSR	Latvian SSR
Template:Country data Lithuanian SSR	Lithuanian SSR
Template:Country data Moldavian SSR	Moldavian SSR
Template:Country data Russian SFSR	Russian SFSR
Template:Country data Tajik SSR	Tajik SSR
Template:Country data Turkmen SSR	Turkmen SSR
Template:Country data Ukrainian SSR	Ukrainian SSR
Template:Country data Uzbek SSR	Uzbek SSR

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

Country data Soviet Union

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

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
No parameters specified