Template:Place

V・T・E {{{name}}}, {{{area}}}

latitude: {{{lat}}}, longitude: {{{lon}}}

Browse map of {{{name}}} {{{lat}}}, {{{lon}}}

Edit map

[[:Category:Users in {{{name}}}|Users in {{{name}}}]] GPS traces Geohack for OSM with more maps Check map features via Query-to-map

External links: Notes Quality checks with Osmose Keep Right! OSM Inspector Streets without names CheckAutopista2 Public transport with öpnvkarte.de Wikipedia: [[w:en:{{{name}}}|en]] Wikimedia Commons OpenStreetMap contributors map Mapillary KartaView

Use this template for your city

{{{name}}} is a {{{type}}} in [[{{{area}}}|{{{area}}}]] at latitude {{{lat}}}, longitude {{{lon}}}.

Template documentation

This documentation is transcluded from Template:Place/doc. (Edit | history)
Note to editors: Please don't categorize this template by editing it directly. Instead, place the category in its documentation page, in its "includeonly" section.

Summary

Template:Place is a template to place details of a place on to the wiki page with the language set by the parameter "lang" or in the language of the current page returned by {{Langcode}} (this language code is determined by the namespace for DE,ES,FR,IT,JA,NL,RU or by the pagename prefix otherwise). Autotranslation is supported (see {{PlaceLang}}) but there are still specialized versions of this template.

The template places a text description in the page itself, and a box on the right with links to further details on the place. There are options for a slippy map centred on the left, and a static image in the box on the right.

The template puts the article in the correct categories: [[Category:Types in subarea]] and/or [[Category:Types in area]] and [[Category:name]] (if the category name exists) so there is no need to do that manually.

One does need to manually put the categories like [[Category:Types in subarea]] into categories like [[Category:Types in area|subarea]] and also into [[Category:subarea]], as well as placing [[Category:name]] into [[Category:Types in subarea]] and/or [[Category:Types in area]].

Parameters

The following parameters can be used in the template:

Parameter name	Required	Purpose
lang	No	The two character language code for the results to be returned. Default is the language code determined by {{Langcode}} from the namespace or prefix of the current page name (which will be assumed to be "en" if there's none).
name	Yes	The name of the place being referred to (eg. Nottingham). This name is used to lookup category names (it may contain a disambiguating precision).
fullname	No	An alternate full name to display on the page (adding an article, or removing the disambiguating precision). If not set, the name parameter will be used.
nativename	No	Native nominative name(s) in original spelling(s), displayed in the box below the name. If not set, nothing else will be displayed.
in-name	No	An alternate locative name to display on the page (adding an article, or removing the disambiguating precision). If not set, the name parameter will be used as defined in Template:PlaceLang using default rules defined for the native language (with a "in" preposition or similar).
of-name	No	An alternate genitive name to display on the page (adding an article, or removing the disambiguating precision). If not set, the name parameter will be used as defined in Template:PlaceLang using default rules defined for the native language (with a "of" preposition or similar).
catname	No	The effective name of the category to use for pages related to that place (without the namespace or language prefix). If not set, a category with the given 'name' (possibly suffixed in its 'subarea2' or 'subarea' or 'area' to disambiguate it) will first be used if it exists; then a category for 'type' in 'subarea2', or 'type' in 'subarea' will be checked; if still not found, the category for 'type' in 'area' will be used otherwise.
sortkey	No	The sortkey for categories. If sortkey is not supplied, the 'name' of the place will be used as the sortkey.
type	Yes	The type of place (preferably in English as a singular noun, case is not significant). Recognised values are: village/ city/ ville/ town/ suburb/ hamlet/ hameau/ municipality /metropolitan borough and town/ county/ district/ canton/ kreis/ landkreis/ département/ province/ prefecture/ oblast/ région/ region/ state/ country/ pays/ sovereign state/ continent/ island/ isle. Some synonyms (including a few translated type names for compatibility reasons only) are recognized but they should map to existing types of places listed (with a plural name) in Category:Places, according to {{CategoryInPlaceLang}} (otherwise, unknown types will be categorized only as "Places in ..." or supported translations); independantly of categories, the type is used in the description and more freely translatable in {{PlaceLang}}, which allow all types to be translated easily from English or one of the compatibility synonyms.
subarea2	No	A secondary subarea (for example, a county name) of the specified 'subarea'. Not used if there's no 'subarea' field specified.
subarea	No	A subarea (for example, the name of a province of China) of the specified 'area'. It is possible to leave this 'subarea' undefined and just specify the 'area'.
area	Yes	The area the place is in (usually a country name, for example China, or a continent name when describing a country)
lat	Yes	The WGS84 latitude of the place (between -90.0 and 90.0 in decimal degrees: 0 on the equatorial circle, negative value in the Southern hemisphere).
lon or long	Yes	The WGS84 longitude of the place (between -180.0 and 180.0 in decimal degrees: 0 on the reference meridian passing near Greenwich, negative value in the Western hemisphere).
zoom	No	The zoom level to open linked maps at. Default value is 12.
image	No	The title of the image to display. No image will be display if image is not defined
map	No	"Yes" if you would like a slippymap included in the main page (width and height can also be used). No map will be displayed if this field is left blank or set to "No".
list	No	URL of a mailing list for the place. If left blank, no link will appear.
archive	No	URL of an archive page for the place. If left blank, no link will appear.
forum	No	URL of a forum page for the place. If left blank, no link will appear.
wikipedia	No	deprecated - use en.wikipedia instead.
en.wikipedia	No	The article name on en.wikipedia.org (in English). Default value is name
ar.wikipedia	No	The article name on ar.wikipedia.org (in Arabic)
bg.wikipedia	No	The article name on bg.wikipedia.org (in Bulgarian)
bn.wikipedia	No	The article name on bn.wikipedia.org (in Bengali)
ca.wikipedia	No	The article name on ca.wikipedia.org (in Catalan)
cs.wikipedia	No	The article name on cs.wikipedia.org (in Czech)
de.wikipedia	No	The article name on de.wikipedia.org (in German)
el.wikipedia	No	The article name on el.wikipedia.org (in Greek)
eo.wikipedia	No	The article name on el.wikipedia.org (in Esperanto)
es.wikipedia	No	The article name on es.wikipedia.org (in Spanish)
fa.wikipedia	No	The article name on fa.wikipedia.org (in Persan/Farsi)
fi.wikipedia	No	The article name on fa.wikipedia.org (in Finnish)
fr.wikipedia	No	The article name on fr.wikipedia.org (in French)
gl.wikipedia	No	The article name on gl.wikipedia.org (in Galician)
he.wikipedia	No	The article name on he.wikipedia.org (in Hebrew)
hi.wikipedia	No	The article name on he.wikipedia.org (in Hindi)
hr.wikipedia	No	The article name on hr.wikipedia.org (in Croatian)
hu.wikipedia	No	The article name on hu.wikipedia.org (in Hungarian)
id.wikipedia	No	The article name on id.wikipedia.org (in Indonesian)
it.wikipedia	No	The article name on it.wikipedia.org (in Italian)
ja.wikipedia	No	The article name on ja.wikipedia.org (in Japanese)
ka.wikipedia	No	The article name on ka.wikipedia.org (in Georgian)
kk.wikipedia	No	The article name on kk.wikipedia.org (in Kazakh)
ko.wikipedia	No	The article name on ko.wikipedia.org (in Korean)
mg.wikipedia	No	The article name on mg.wikipedia.org (in Malagasy)
mk.wikipedia	No	The article name on mk.wikipedia.org (in Macedonian)
ml.wikipedia	No	The article name on ml.wikipedia.org (in Malalayam)
ne.wikipedia	No	The article name on ne.wikipedia.org (in Nepalese)
nl.wikipedia	No	The article name on nl.wikipedia.org (in Dutch)
no.wikipedia	No	The article name on no.wikipedia.org (in Norwegian Bokmal)
or.wikipedia	No	The article name on or.wikipedia.org (in Orya)
pl.wikipedia	No	The article name on pl.wikipedia.org (in Polish)
pt.wikipedia	No	The article name on pt.wikipedia.org (in Portuguese)
ro.wikipedia	No	The article name on ro.wikipedia.org (in Romanian)
ru.wikipedia	No	The article name on ru.wikipedia.org (in Russian)
sk.wikipedia	No	The article name on sk.wikipedia.org (in Slovakian)
sl.wikipedia	No	The article name on sl.wikipedia.org (in Slovenian)
sq.wikipedia	No	The article name on sq.wikipedia.org (in Albanian)
sr.wikipedia	No	The article name on sr.wikipedia.org (in Serbian)
sv.wikipedia	No	The article name on sv.wikipedia.org (in Swedish)
ta.wikipedia	No	The article name on ta.wikipedia.org (in Tamil)
te.wikipedia	No	The article name on te.wikipedia.org (in Telugu)
th.wikipedia	No	The article name on tr.wikipedia.org (in Thai)
tr.wikipedia	No	The article name on tr.wikipedia.org (in Turkish)
uk.wikipedia	No	The article name on uk.wikipedia.org (in Ukrainian)
ur.wikipedia	No	The article name on ur.wikipedia.org (in Urdu)
vi.wikipedia	No	The article name on vi.wikipedia.org (in Vietnamese)
zh.wikipedia	No	The article name on zh.wikipedia.org (in Chinese)
wikidata	No	The item id (Qnnn) on wikidata.org
latlon	No	"Yes" if you would like to add link to LatLon.org public transport render.
BestOfOSM	No	Inscription in BestOfOSM.org possibles values are : BestOf/ Interesting/ Import/ Historic, categorize the page in the relevant category
krdb	No	The database to use in the Keep Right link (CA: Canada; US: USA; XG: Central America and Caribbean; XC: South America; XA: Africa; EU: Europe; XD: Asia; AU: Australasia and Oceania). Default value is EU. See Template:Keepright for details.

Categories

If there is a category for the name of the place (e.g. New York) then this category is added to the page.

The template will add the place to a category types in subarea (e.g. Cities in Berkshire).

If the subarea is not defined, the template will also add the place to the category types in area (eg. Cities in UK). This increases the chance the place will be allocated to a category that exists, but ensures that if a more specific category exists it isn't allocated to the parent category.

Usage

Full template

{{Place
|lang        =xx          (two character language code, default is from {{Langcode}})
|name        =name
|nativename  =native name        (optional)
|in-name     =in the native name (optional, see [[Template:PlaceLang]])
|of-name     =of the native name (optional, see [[Template:PlaceLang]])
|type        =something   (village/city/ville/town/suburb/hamlet/hameau...
                           municipality/metropolitan borough and town...
                           county/district/canton/kreis/landkreis/département...
                           province/prefecture/oblast/région/region/state...
                           country/pays/sovereign state...
                           continent/island/isle)
|subarea2    =text        (optional, name of a secondary subdivision of the following subarea)
|subarea     =text        (optional, usually province, prefecture or state name)
|area        =text        (usually country name, or continent when describing countries)
|lat         =number, +/- (latitude of the place)
|long        =number, +/- (longitude of the place)
|zoom        =number 1-17 (optional, The zoom level to open linked 
                           to maps at. Default value is 12. )
|image       =image.png   (optional, image in box)
|image caption = text     (optional, description of the image in box)
|map         =Yes         (optional, slippymap included in the main page)
|width       =# of pixels (optional, width of slippymap, default is equal to the text width)
|height      =# of pixels (optional, width of slippymap, default is 400)
|layer       =layer       (optional, layer of slippymap, default is mapnik, documentation at [[Wiki:Maps]])
|latlon      =Yes         (optional, to add link to LatLon.org 
                           public transport render.)
|sortkey     =text        (optional, If sortkey is not supplied the 
                           name of the place will be used as the sortkey.)
|list        =URL         (optional, mailing list page for the place.)
|archive     =URL         (optional, archive page for the place)
|forum       =URL         (optional, forum page for the place)
|en.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on en.wikipedia.org, 
                           default value is 'name')
|de.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on de.wikipedia.org)
|es.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on es.wikipedia.org)
|fr.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on fr.wikipedia.org)
|it.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on it.wikipedia.org)
|ja.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on ja.wikipedia.org)
|nl.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on nl.wikipedia.org)
|pt.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on ja.wikipedia.org)
|ru.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on ru.wikipedia.org)
|uk.wikipedia=text        (optional, article name on uk.wikipedia.org)
|wikidata    =Qnnn        (optional, element id on wikidata.org)
|BestOfOSM   =text        (optional, possibles values are: 
                           BestOf/ Interesting/ Import/ Historic)
|krdb        =text        (optional, database to use in the 'Keep Right' link. Default
                           value is EU. See [[Template:Keepright]] for details.)
}}

Blank template with required fields only

{{Place
|name = 
|type = 
|area = 
|lat  = 
|long = 
}}

Blank template with most available fields

{{Place|lang=en
|name        = 
|type        = 
|subarea2    = 
|subarea     = 
|area        = 
|lat         = 
|long        = 
|zoom        = 12
|image       = 
|map         = 
|width       = 
|height      = 
|layer       = 
|sortkey     = 
|list        = 
|archive     = 
|forum       = 
|de.wikipedia= 
|en.wikipedia= 
|es.wikipedia= 
|fr.wikipedia= 
|it.wikipedia= 
|ja.wikipedia= 
|ru.wikipedia= 
|uk.wikipedia= 
|wikidata    = 
|latlon      = 
|BestOfOSM   = 
|krdb        = 
}}

Example - UK town (no slippy map displayed, static image used instead)

V・T・E Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom

latitude: 51.445, longitude: -0.9685

Browse map of Reading 51°26′42.00″ N, 0°58′06.60″ W

Edit map

Users in Reading GPS traces Geohack for OSM with more maps Check map features via Query-to-map

External links: Notes Quality checks with Osmose Keep Right! OSM Inspector Streets without names CheckAutopista2 Public transport with öpnvkarte.de Wikipedia: en Wikidata: Q161491 Wikimedia Commons OpenStreetMap contributors map Mapillary KartaView

Use this template for your city

Reading is a town in Berkshire, England, United Kingdom at latitude 51°26′42.00″ North, longitude 0°58′06.60″ West.

{{Place|lang=en
|name        = Reading
|type        = town
|subarea2    = Berkshire
|subarea     = England
|area        = United Kingdom
|lat         = 51.445
|long        = -0.9685
|zoom        = 11
|image       = File:UK Reading status.png
|wikidata=Q161491
}}

Example - US city (no static image, but using a slippy map below the description)

V・T・E Los Angeles, California, United States

latitude: 34.0214, longitude: -118.4120

Browse map of Los Angeles 34°01′17.04″ N, 118°24′43.20″ W

Edit map

Users in Los Angeles GPS traces Geohack for OSM with more maps Check map features via Query-to-map

External links: Notes Quality checks with Osmose Keep Right! OSM Inspector Streets without names CheckAutopista2 Public transport with öpnvkarte.de Wikipedia: en Wikimedia Commons OpenStreetMap contributors map Mapillary KartaView

Use this template for your city

Los Angeles is a city in California, United States at latitude 34°01′17.04″ North, longitude 118°24′43.20″ West.

{{Place|lang=en
|name        = Los Angeles
|type        = city
|subarea     = California
|area        = United States
|lat=34.0214|long=-118.4120
|map=yes|zoom=10|width=380|height=560
}}

Example - Nepal Region (no subarea, alternative image, and map used below the description)

V・T・E The Western Development Region, Nepal पश्चिमाञ्चल विकास क्षेत्र Pashchimānchal Bikās Kshetra

latitude: 28.335, longitude: 83.947

Browse map of the Western Development Region 28°20′06.00″ N, 83°56′49.20″ E

Edit map

Users in the Western Development Region GPS traces Geohack for OSM with more maps Check map features via Query-to-map

External links: OpenStreetMap users: Nepal Forum Notes Quality checks with Osmose Keep Right! OSM Inspector Streets without names CheckAutopista2 Public transport with öpnvkarte.de Wikipedia: en, de, pl Wikidata: Q28462 Wikimedia Commons OpenStreetMap contributors map Mapillary KartaView

Use this template for your city

The Western Development Region is a region in Nepal at latitude 28°20′06.00″ North, longitude 83°56′49.20″ East.

{{Place|lang=en
|name=Western Development Region
|nativename=पश्चिमाञ्चल विकास क्षेत्र<br />''Pashchimānchal Bikās Kshetra''
|fullname=The Western Development Region
|in-name=in the Western Development Region
|of-name=of the Western Development Region
|type=region
|area=Nepal
|image=File:Subdivisions of Nepal EN.png
|image caption=Location map of subdivisions of Nepal
|forum=https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewforum.php?id=81 OpenStreetMap users: Nepal
|lat=28.335|long=83.947
|map=slippy|zoom=8|width=480|height=430
|krdb=XD
|en.wikipedia=Western Development Region, Nepal
|de.wikipedia=Entwicklungsregion West (Nepal)
|pl.wikipedia=Western Development Region
|wikidata=Q28462
}}

See also

• {{PlaceLang}} – Used internally to translate most texts displayed by the current template.
• {{CategoryInPlaceLang}} – Used internally to adapt the translated category names (warning! they must first be created separately, do not translate them blindly !)
• {{Country}} – Larger template including this one, with an additional top banner intended for places that are countries.