CIA World Fact Book, 2004

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The World Factbook (2004)
United States Central Intelligence Agency

The World Factbook (ISSN 1553-8133) is an annual publication of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The World Factbook provides a two- to three-page summary of the demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, and military of 267 U.S.-recognized countries, dependencies, and other areas in the world. The World Factbook is prepared by the CIA for the use of U.S. government officials, and its style, format, coverage and content are primarily designed to meet their requirements. However, it is frequently used as a resource for student papers, web sites and non-governmental publications. As a work of the U.S. government, it is in the public domain. — Excerpted from The World Factbook on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

This page is used to organize the pages of The World Factbook for easy access. All pages list under this page are a snapshot of The World Factbook as it existed on 26 March 2005. The current version of The World Factbook, along with previous versions, can be found here: cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/