The 2007 CIA World Factbook
The 2007 CIA World Factbook
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Every country on Earth, distilled into intelligence. The CIA World Factbook is the closest thing to a complete portrait of our planet: 270+ sovereign states and territories, each one mapped, measured, and meticulously profiled by analysts who actually know things. Here is the data that journalists cite when borders shift, that researchers reach for when they need hard numbers on GDP or military expenditure or population density, that trivia enthusiasts consult when settling debates about phosphates in Morocco or unemployment rates in Estonia. This is not a book you read cover to cover. It is a book you open at 2 a.m. when a question occurs to you, and find yourself still reading an hour later, falling through the rabbit hole of national statistics,cia factbook,world reference,countries,geography
