Template intended to simplify adding a standardized and formatted caption below a map indicating the location of something (e.g. a country), possibly referring to the map's main region and optionally also to a shown subregion. Original use within infoboxes (e.g. see articles on European countries). For a complete set of elements of reasonable length, a width of (minimally) 250px (without extra padding or margins) should be available.
Required parameters shown in bold italics
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Parameter | Description | Default |
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countryprefix |
- Neither linked nor styled prefix e.g. "the" (for articles named e.g. "United Kingdom", "Czech Republic", "Netherlands").
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country |
- Only if the country name at the map should not be identical to the article name (e.g. "Metropolitan France").
- Template sets [[...]] (if article or redirect exists).
| < article name > |
location |
- Description identifying country's location (e.g. "circled in inset") if default value of location_color is not appropriate.
- If passed, location_color is suppressed; a value of "none" suppresses both.
| – |
location_color |
- Only if location is not used: Colour identifying country's location; "none" suppresses the default.
| orange |
region |
- Name (or equally extremely short description) for approximately the entire area depicted by the map.
- special: "[[Antarctica]]" shown as "on Antarctica",
- special: "[[Middle East]]", "[[Arctic Circle]]" or "[[Pacific Ocean]]" shown as "in the ...",
- special: versus any other: shown as "in ...", e.g. "[[Africa]]" shown as "in Africa"
| – |
region_color |
- Colour identifying region; "none" suppresses the default.
| white |
subregion |
- Subregion indicated within region (only if used: aligning both region and subregion lines to the left, else single region line centered as top line)
- Must not occur without parameter region.
- special: "[[EU]]" or "[[European Union]]" shown as "in the European Union",
- special: versus any other: shown as "in ...", e.g. "the [[Caucasus]]" shown as "in the Caucasus"
| – |
subregion_color |
- Colour identifying subregion; "none" suppresses showing the default.
| tan |
legend |
- Filename of image providing a map legend.
| – |
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- Note
If country, region or subregion is exactly the name of a page in article space, the template automatically creates a link to it. You can still put a link here manually, using the usual syntax.
Code | Raw result (in unformatted box, compare to handling in Infobox) |
{{map caption}} |
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Location of Map caption/doc (orange) |
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{{map caption |region=Europe |legend=European location legend en.png}} |
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Location of Map caption/doc (orange) in Europe (white) – [Legend] |
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{{map caption |countryprefix=the |region=Europe |subregion=the [[European Union]] |legend=European location legend en.png}} |
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Typical sample for an article on a European Union member that needs no "the" before its name, for otherwise identical output:
{{map caption |region=Europe |subregion=EU |legend=European location legend en.png}} |
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More information Map caption/doc, Capital ...
Infobox usage of code (as intended) — in which the alignment, the padding/margins, and font are rendered differently (this template adjusts for that infobox): |
Sample for article named 'Armenia', about a non-European country
{{Infobox Country or territory|
|common_name = Armenia
|image_map = Europe location ARM.png
|map_caption = {{map caption}}
|(some required infobox parameters omitted from sample)
}}
Sample for article named 'Belarus', about a non-member of the EU
{{Infobox Country or territory|
|common_name = Belarus
|image_map = Europe location BLR.png
|map_caption = {{map caption |region=Europe |legend=European location legend en.png}}
|(some required infobox parameters omitted from sample)
}}
Sample for article named 'Netherlands', about a member of the EU
{{Infobox Country or territory|
|common_name = the Netherlands
|image_map = EU location NED.png
|map_caption = {{map caption |countryprefix=the |region=Europe |subregion=the [[European Union]] |legend=European location legend en.png}}
|(some required infobox parameters omitted from sample)
}}
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Net result — The three simplified samples above, shown here side by side Net result — (called here without country parameter, and with placeholder values for population to prevent error messages): |
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