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{{About continent and region topic templates}}

==Additional documentation for Template:Asia topic==

===Removing the article "the"===
By default all links for the entries for the Philippines, the Maldives, etc. include the article "the". In some cases this is not wanted. To remove the leading article, set the parameter {{para|article}} to anything except "yes". 

'''Code'''
<code><nowiki>{{Asia topic|suffix=national football team|title=National football teams of Asia|article=no|state=expanded}}</nowiki></code>
'''Result'''
{{Asia topic|suffix=national football team|title=National football teams of Asia|article=no|state=expanded}}

Note that {{tl|Asia topic}}, together with {{tl|Europe topic}}, is the only continent-topic template to have an "article" parameter. In most other templates "the" is automatically included if there is no suffix and cannot be manually added or suppressed.

===Adding or suppressing "(country)" for Georgia===
In the link for Georgia, the disambiguator "(country)" is included unless a suffix is defined using either {{para|suffix}} or the second unnamed parameter. The {{para|template}} parameter overrides this behavior; set it to "yes" to explicitly include the disambiguator, or to anything else to suppress it.

The previously mentioned default behavior is different from that in {{tl|Europe topic}}; in that template "(country)" is always included by default, regardless of whether a suffix is defined.

===Altering the link used for a specific entity===
To change the link used for a single state or dependency, the following entity-specific parameters are available. Most parameters are named after each entity's [[ISO 3166-1 alpha-2]] code; some states with limited recognition are not included in that standard and have parameters consisting of nonofficial two-letter codes preceded by the letter "X" ([[ISO 3166-1 alpha-3#User-assigned code elements|ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 user-assigned codes]]).

'''Sovereign states'''
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* {{para|AF}} Afghanistan
* {{para|AM}} Armenia
* {{para|AZ}} Azerbaijan
* {{para|BH}} Bahrain
* {{para|BD}} Bangladesh
* {{para|BT}} Bhutan
* {{para|BN}} Brunei
* {{para|MM}} Burma (Myanmar)
* {{para|KH}} Cambodia
* {{para|CN}} China
* {{para|CY}} Cyprus
* {{para|TL}} East Timor (Timor-Leste)
* {{para|EG}} Egypt
* {{para|GE}} Georgia
* {{para|IN}} India
* {{para|ID}} Indonesia
* {{para|IR}} Iran
* {{para|IQ}} Iraq
* {{para|IL}} Israel
* {{para|JP}} Japan
* {{para|JO}} Jordan
* {{para|KZ}} Kazakhstan
* {{para|KP}} North Korea
* {{para|KR}} South Korea
* {{para|KW}} Kuwait
* {{para|KG}} Kyrgyzstan
* {{para|LA}} Laos
* {{para|LB}} Lebanon
* {{para|MY}} Malaysia
* {{para|MV}} Maldives
* {{para|MN}} Mongolia
* {{para|NP}} Nepal
* {{para|OM}} Oman
* {{para|PK}} Pakistan
* {{para|PH}} Philippines
* {{para|QA}} Qatar
* {{para|RU}} Russia
* {{para|SA}} Saudi Arabia
* {{para|SG}} Singapore
* {{para|LK}} Sri Lanka
* {{para|SY}} Syria
* {{para|TJ}} Tajikistan
* {{para|TH}} Thailand
* {{para|TR}} Turkey
* {{para|TM}} Turkmenistan
* {{para|AE}} United Arab Emirates
* {{para|UZ}} Uzbekistan
* {{para|VN}} Vietnam
* {{para|YE}} Yemen
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'''States with limited recognition'''
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* {{para|XAB}} Abkhazia
* {{para|XNC}} Northern Cyprus
* {{para|PS}} Palestine (UN observer state)
* {{para|XSO}} South Ossetia
* {{para|TW}} Taiwan
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'''Dependencies and other territories'''
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* {{para|IO}} British Indian Ocean Territory
* {{para|CX}} Christmas Island
* {{para|CC}} Cocos (Keeling) Islands
* {{para|HK}} Hong Kong
* {{para|MO}} Macau
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If a parameter is specified, but left blank, the respective entity will be omitted from the list. If set to anything else, it changes the link for the entity to the specified title. This can be used to correct an otherwise red link, or to bypass a redirect link per [[WP:BRINT]].

To omit all dependencies if not applicable for the topic in question, set the parameter {{para|countries_only}} to any non-null value.

== List of wrapper templates using ''Template:Asia topic'' ==
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* {{tl|Abortion in Asia}}
* {{tl|Asia related articles index}}
* {{tl|Asia templates}}
* {{tl|Asia topics templates}}
* {{tl|Bodybuilding in Asia}}
* {{tl|Bridges in Asia}}
* {{tl|Capitals in Asia}}
* {{tl|Coats of arms of Asia}}
* {{tl|Constitutions of Asia}}
* {{tl|Crime in Asia}}
* {{tl|Education in Asia}}
* {{tl|Football in Asia}}
* {{tl|Foreign relations of Asia}}
* {{tl|Geography of Asia}}
* {{tl|Government agencies in Asia}}
* {{tl|History of Asia}}
* {{tl|History of Asia templates}}
* {{tl|International organization membership in Asia}}
* {{tl|Judiciaries of Asia}}
* {{tl|Languages of Asia (category)}}
* {{tl|List of football stadiums in Asia}}
* {{tl|Motorways in Asia}}
* {{tl|Music of Asia}}
* {{tl|Politics of Asia}}
* {{tl|Politics of Asia templates}}
* {{tl|Prisons in Asia}}
* {{tl|Sport deaths in Asia (category)}}
* {{tl|Sport in Asia}}
* {{tl|Telephone numbers in Asia}}
* {{tl|Television in Asia}}
* {{tl|Tourism in Asia}}
* {{tl|Women's football in Asia}}
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==See also==
{{Continent-based templates}}

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