Template:Country data East Germany

Template documentation

Template:Country data East Germany 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	East Germany	Main article name (East Germany)
flag alias	Flag of East Germany.svg	Image name (File:Flag of East Germany.svg, shown on right)

Flag variants

Label	Flag image (40px)	Image name
1949		Flag of Germany.svg
EUA		German Olympic flag (1959-1968).svg
naval	File:Flag of warships of VM (East Germany).svg	Flag of warships of VM (East Germany).svg
military		Flag of NVA (East Germany).svg
navy		Flag of warships of VM (East Germany).svg
army		Flag of NVA (East Germany).svg

Military ensigns

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

• {{navy|East Germany}} → Volksmarine

• {{flagicon|East Germany|naval}} →
  

This nation's air force ensign is the same as its national flag, so Template:Air force produces the following:

• {{air force|East Germany}} → Air Forces of the National People's Army
  

This template includes a marine ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Armed forces:

• {{Armed forces|East Germany}} → National People's Army

• {{flagicon|East Germany|military}} →
  

This template includes a navy flag variant that can be used with Template:Naval:

• {{naval|East Germany}} → Volksmarine

• {{flagicon|East Germany|navy}} →
  

This template includes an army ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Army:

• {{army|East Germany}} → Land Forces of the National People's Army

• {{flagicon|East Germany|army}} →

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
GDR (view)	GDR population =	GDR population =
DDR (view)	DDR	DDR
German Democratic Republic (view)	German Democratic Republic population =	German Democratic Republic population =

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

• {{flag|East Germany}} → East Germany

• {{flagicon|East Germany}} →

Using a flag variant

• {{flag|East Germany|1949}} → East Germany

• {{flagicon|East Germany|1949}} →

Using a redirect alias

• {{flagicon|GDR}} →

population =

• {{flagcountry|GDR}} →

GDR population =

• {{flag|GDR}} →

GDR population =

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

• Template:Country data GermanyGermany

• Template:Country data West GermanyWest Germany

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 East Germany in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Country data East Germany

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

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