Template:Documentation Asia map templates

The example shown below is for the following, structurally similar, template:.

Usage


Other templates of the same family (Continental Asia in 200 BCE, Continental Asia in 400 CE, Continental Asia in 1000 CE, South Asia in 600 CE etc...) follow the same format:

Parameters
Use with the following format in Wikipedia articles (all parameters are optional):
 * 1: defines the position of the map on a page: center, left, right
 * 2 defines an alternative caption for the map, for example: Asian polities in 500 BCE
 * 3 defines additional objects to place on the map, for example:
 * A text with hyperlink:
 * A rectangle:
 * A date mask:
 * An object defined through geographic coordinates
 * 4 defines an alternative background map, which has to have the same size as the original.
 * 5 if set to none, will remove the border of the map, for use in infoboxes for example.

Example
The basic map would simply require the code, but the code for the same map with an alignement to the right, with a different caption, with an added rectangle for "YUEZHI" and a geo-located dot for the city of Ai-Khanoum, with a specially-made map overlay showing Xiongnu territory (this map), and without a border, looks like: