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Fletcher prouty recounting the authors firsthand knowledge of cia black operations and espionage, was met with a wide scale censorship campaign in 1972. G cia world factbook the best country factbook available. This essential household and workplace desk reference is the most useful reference book known to modern man, according to the l. More people speak spanish here than in spain, because many more people live in mexico and the country is also more than three times bigger. Please bookmark this page add it to your favorites.
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The language and religion entries in the world factbooks travel facts have all been recently updated. The world factbook, also known as the cia world factbook, is a reference resource produced by the central intelligence agency cia with almanac style information about the countries of the world. Return from geography facts to kidsworldtravelguide homepage. Download this app from microsoft store for windows 10 mobile, windows phone 8. Links are to the definitions and notes about each entry.
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Percent population accessing electricity in egypt, ethiopia and sudan. The information regarding zambia on this page is republished from the 2020 world fact book of the united states central intelligence agency and other sources. This comprehensive guide is packed with data on the. However, with limited staff and resources, we simply. Apr 09, 2014 the cia shut down access to the 23rd highest mountain in the world for nearly a decade in the 60s because they lost a nuclear powered missile detector in an avalanche source 20. If you use the cia world factbook as a source of information for your paper, you must include it in the reference list at the end of your paper. The campaign to kill the book was nationwide and worldwide, prouty notes. After all, the original entries were posted back when e2 was in its infancy and they consisted mostly of facts and statistics that were outdated, never updated and were supposedly available at other websites. The cia world factbook 2016, the central intelligence. Cia world factbook the most comprehensive country facts available online the world factbook the factbook provides a two to threepage summary of the demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, and military of 266 u. Information is raw data from any source, data that may be fragmentary, contradictory, unreliable, ambiguous, deceptive, or wrong. American reference books annual world book student named one of the twenty best bets for student researchers. The world factbook countrylocation photo gallery modal world. Cia world factbook the best country factbook available.
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The world almanac and book of facts is americas bestselling reference book of all time, with more than 82 million copies sold. Government, tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence humint. This concise publication contains maps, data on military capabilities, political leanings and other information. The factbook provides a two to threepage summary of the demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, and military of 272. The central intelligence agency cia is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the u. This comprehensive guide is packed with data on the politics, populations, military expenditures, and economics of 2019. Travel facts the world factbook central intelligence. Save time and improve your marks with cite this for me. Intelligence community ic, the cia reports to the director of national intelligence.
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Nov 24, 2015 from afghanistan to zimbabwe, the cia world factbook 2016 offers complete and uptodate information on the world s nations. Each country profile tracks such demographics as population, ethnicity and literacy rates, as well as political, geographical and economic data. Total population of egypt, ethiopia and sudan from 1950 through 2020. A series of land wars between 1843 and 1872 ended with the defeat of the native peoples. Its creation in 1947 was intended to address problems of duplication, competition, and lack of coordination that had characterized previous u. The united states was the last of the major powers to establish a civilian intelligence agency responsible for the collection of secret information for policy makers. North america united states the world factbook central. Among the data element extracted and processed are. Central intelligence agency that provides statistics and demographics about nations around the world. The data is free to use and is in the public domain. Apr 11, 2011 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread. Get the facts about poverty and population growth statistics around the world. Mexico is the country with the most spanish speakers in the world.
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