The example shown below is for the following, structurally similar, template: {{ Continental Asia in 200 BCE}}.
{{
Continental Asia in 200 BCE}}
{{
Continental Asia in 200 BCE|Parameter 1|Parameter 2|Parameter 3|Parameter 4|Parameter 5}}
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:
Use with the following format in Wikipedia articles (all parameters are optional):
|1=
: defines the position of the map on a page: |1=center
, |1=left
, |1=right
|2=
defines an alternative caption for the map, for example: |2=Asian polities in 500 BCE
|3=
defines additional objects to place on the map, for example:
{{
Annotation|227|50|
<span class="mw-no-invert" style="color:#4F311CFF">''City of Heaven''</span>|text-aligns=center|font-weights=bold|font-styles=normal|font-sizes=6|colors=#000000}}
{{
Annotation|175|134|[[File:Long Rectangle (plain).png|40px]]}}
{{
Annotation|0|0|[[File:Continental Asia date mask.png|300px]]}}
{{
location map~|Continental Asia|lat=37.164722|N|long=69.408611|E|label=|position=|label_size=|mark=Basic red dot.png|marksize=4}}
|4=
defines an alternative background map, which has to have the same size as the original.|5=
if set to |5=none
, will remove the border of the map, for use in infoboxes for example.The basic map would simply require the code {{
Continental Asia in 200 BCE}}
, 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:
{{Continental Asia in 200 BCE
|right
|The [[Yuezhi]], with [[Xiongnu]] territory and main polities of Asia in 200 BCE
|{{Annotation|185|70|[[File:Long Rectangle (plain).png|35px]]}} {{location map~ |Continental Asia |lat=37.164722|N |long=69.408611|E |label=|position=|label_size=|mark=Basic red dot.png|marksize=4}}
|Map of the Xiongnu, circa 150 BCE.png
|none
}}