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This is a navbox template intended for "Year in country" articles for African countries. Based on the input year, it contains all countries in Africa in that year, linked to the respective "Year in country" article, if that doesn't exist the "Decade in country" article, and if that doesn't exist either the "History of country" article.

This template is based on {{Year in Europe}} and therefore uses mostly the same parameters. The template may not yet contain all former countries, though the goal is to make it accurate for all years after 1000.

Parameters

• {{{1}}} (first unnamed parameter): The year (required; if unspecified or not numeric an error message is given)
• {{{title}}}: A custom title (default: "<year> in Africa", linked if an article with that name exists)
• {{{state}}}: "expanded", "collapsed" or "autocollapse" (see {{collapsible option}})

Furthermore, the link to each country can be individually set using the following parameter names. If set to nothing it omits the country entirely. These parameters also work if a country is omitted by default because it didn't exist in the given year.

Current countries (ISO 3166-1 codes) DZ – Algeria (also as colony) AO – Angola BJ – Benin BW – Botswana BF – Burkina Faso BI – Burundi CM – Cameroon CV – Cape Verde CF – Central African Republic TD – Chad (also as colony) KM – Comoros CD – Democratic Republic of the Congo CG – Republic of the Congo DJ – Djibouti EG – Egypt GQ – Equatorial Guinea ER – Eritrea ET – Ethiopia GA – Gabon GM – The Gambia GH – Ghana GN – Guinea GW – Guinea-Bissau CI – Ivory Coast KE – Kenya LS – Lesotho KW – Kuwait KG – Kyrgyzstan LA – Laos LB – Lebanon MY – Malaysia MV – Maldives MN – Mongolia (also as unrecognised country) NP – Nepal OM – Oman PK – Pakistan PH – Philippines QA – Qatar RU – Russia SA – Saudi Arabia SQ – Singapore LK – Sri Lanka SY – Syria TJ – Tajikistan TH – Thailand TR – Turkey TG – Togo TN – Tunisia UG – Uganda ZM – Zambia ZW – Zimbabwe

Current dependencies (ISO 3166-1 codes) IO – British Indian Ocean Territory CX – Christmas Island CC – Cocos (Keeling) Islands HK – Hong Kong MO – Macau States with limited recognition (ISO 3166-1 user-assigned codes) XEH – Sahrawi Democratic Arab Republic XSO – Somaliland Former countries (ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-3 codes) DHY – Dahomey HV – Upper Volta ZR – Zaire Former countries (ISO 3166-1 user-assigned codes) XMA – British Malaya XIN – British Raj XBY – Byzantine Empire XLK – Ceylon (changed to Sri Lanka) XGB – Colony of Aden XNL – Dutch East Indies XFN – French India XFI – French Indochina XKR – Korea XMY – Malaya (changed to Malaysia) XIQ – Mandatory Iraq XPS – Mandatory Palestine XSY – Mandatory Syria XMN – Mongol Empire XOT – Ottoman Empire XCN – Tibet XJO – Transjordan XVN – South Vietnam

It's technically possible to input non-integer years like 1976.5, but that wouldn't make much sense, and year articles are not likely to exist for such years.

Examples

{{Year in Africa|2000}} →

Example with custom title and links:

{{Year in Africa|2000|title=Title|ID=Custom link for Sierra Leone}} →

Note the (red) custom link for Sierra Leone.

Code for adding countries

* {{Year in Africa/expr|{{{1}}}|{{{Code|♦}}}|Years|name=Country name}}

"Years" is a series of up to six unnamed parameters where each pair of two identifies a time period in which the country existed. Omit either for an unbounded interval (since the first year or until the second year). Some examples:

Code	Interval	Country included in years
* {{Year in Africa/expr|{{{1}}}|{{{Code|♦}}}|1100|1300|name=Name}}	[1100, 1300)	1100–1300
* {{Year in Africa/expr|{{{1}}}|{{{Code|♦}}}|1100|1300|1500|1700|name=Name}}	[1100, 1300), [1500, 1700)	1100–1300 and 1500–1700
* {{Year in Africa/expr|{{{1}}}|{{{Code|♦}}}|1100|name=Name}}	[1100, +∞)	since 1100
* {{Year in Africa/expr|{{{1}}}|{{{Code|♦}}}|1300|name=Name}}	(−∞, 1300)	until 1300
* {{Year in Africa/expr|{{{1}}}|{{{Code|♦}}}|1100|1300|1500|name=Name}}	[1100, 1300), [1500, +∞)	from 1100 until 1300 and after 1500
* {{Year in Africa/expr|{{{1}}}|{{{Code|♦}}}|1100|1300|name=Name}}	(−∞, 1100), [1300, +∞)	before 1100 and after 1300
* {{Year in Africa/expr|{{{1}}}|{{{Code|♦}}}|name=Name}}	(−∞, +∞)	always

By design, each interval includes the left endpoint and excludes the right endpoint. A country with the coding from the first example would therefore be listed if the input year is 1100, but not if the input year is 1300.

Limits

This template uses two {{#ifexist}} parser functions for each included country. Because {{#ifexist}} is an expensive parser function, only 500 of these may be used on a given page (see Wikipedia:Template limits). Depending on the number of countries in the given year, this template can therefore be transcluded only a few times on the same page, and if a page already uses a lot of expensive parser functions, adding it may cause the page to be automatically added to Category:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls.