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== Description ==
<code><nowiki>{{flag+link|string|country|variant|size=|name=}}</nowiki></code>

Produces a flag icon attached to a wikilinked article.  This template is similar to the more widely used {{tl|flag}} and {{tl|flagcountry}} templates, but is more useful for representing something like a country/region/place/organization/etc followed by a link, labelled using that country/region/etc's name, to an article on some aspect of that country/region/etc.
;Parameters
*{{para|1}} (first unnamed parameter): Use a string that will precede the country name defined in the second parameter.
*{{para|2}} (second unnamed parameter): Use either the name of the state or in some cases, a three-letter country code (e.g. [[ISO 3166-1 alpha-3]])
*{{para|variant}} (optional parameter): Specifies an alternative (historical) flag to use.  This parameter is documented by the appropriate template in [[:Category:Country data templates]].
*{{para|size}} (optional): Can be used to change the flag icon size.
*{{para|name}} (optional): The display text of the target wikilink is usually automatically generated, but can always be over-ridden with the name parameter. 

==Usage examples==
# <code><nowiki>{{flag+link|Politics of|LIE}}</nowiki></code> → {{flag+link|Politics of|LIE}}
#:In this case, the country code for Liechtenstein (LIE) is used to produce the correct flag and wikilink to [[Politics of Liechtenstein]].
# <code><nowiki>{{flag+link|Politics of|LIE|variant=1719}}</nowiki></code> → {{flag+link|Politics of|LIE|variant=1719}}
#:Similar to the first example, but with a flag variant parameter to select a historical flag image.
#<code><nowiki>{{flag+link|Sport in|Czech Republic|name=Czechia}}</nowiki></code> → {{flag+link|Sport in|Czech Republic|name=Czechia}}
#:Optionally, an alternate name can be displayed. Note that the wikilink still uses the name used in the country's article (defined in [[Template:Country data Czech Republic]] in this case).
#<code><nowiki>{{flag+link|Disc golf in|North Korea}}</nowiki></code> → {{flag+link|Disc golf in|North Korea}}
#:If no article exists with the name formed by the combination of ''string'' and ''name'', the link will default to <nowiki>[[</nowiki>''name'']]. {{tlx|flag+link|Disc golf in|North Korea}}, for instance, produces {{flag+link|Disc golf in|North Korea}} with "North Korea" as a link to [[North Korea]] because [[Disc golf in North Korea]] does not exist.

To specify a width for the icon and/or a particular variant/version of the flag, set the parameters {{para|size}} and/or {{para|variant}} in the same manner as {{tl|flagicon}}'s ''size'' and ''variant'' parameters. (See [[Template:Flagicon/doc|{{tlf|flagicon}}'s documentation]] for more details.)

===Example use in articles===
For examples of this template's use in articles, see the following articles:
* [[Cabbage#Production]]
* [[Administrative divisions of South America#Table]] (leftmost columns)

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