There is now a 2004 CIA - The World Factbook (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/) available online. Most of our entries are from the 2000 edition. Anyone with a lot of time and a sense of purpose is encouraged to update our articles with the new data.
Pieces of information ported not country-by-country
Countries
Please annotate the list below with the current status of the port from the CIA web site to the Ireland Information Guide
A
- Afghanistan (updated to 2003) Regulus 10:53, Aug 29, 2003 (UTC)
- Albania (updated to 2003) Regulus 11:07, Aug 29, 2003 (UTC)
- Algeria (Updated to 2003) Regulus 11:05, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- American Samoa
- Andorra
- Angola (updated to 2003) Greenman 31 Oct 2003
- Anguilla
- Antarctica (finished)
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Arctic Ocean
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba
B
- Bahamas, The
- Bahrain
- Baker Island
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Bassas da India
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin (geography done)
- Bermuda
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (partly 2000, partly 2003)
- Botswana (updated to 2003) Greenman 2 Nov 2003
- Bouvet Island (finished)
- Brazil
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- British Virgin Islands (Geography updated to 2004)
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burma
- Burundi
C
D
- Denmark (finished)
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
E
F
- Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
- Faroe Islands (finished)
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands
G
H
I
J
- Jamaica
- Jan Mayen (finished)
- Japan
- Jarvis Island
- Jersey
- Johnston Atoll
- Jordan
- Juan de Nova Island
K
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kingman Reef
- Kiribati
- Korea, North
- Korea, South
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
L
M
- Macau
- Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of (finished)
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Isle of Man
- Marshall Islands
- Martinique
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Mexico
- Micronesia, Federated States of
- Midway Islands
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- Mozambique (updated to 2003) Greenman 8 Nov 2003
N
- Namibia (updated to 2003) Greenman 2 Nov 2003
- Nauru
- Navassa Island
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- Netherlands Antilles
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand (Updated to 2003) RossA 07:07, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Norway (finished)
O
P
Q
R
S
- Saint Helena
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia and Montenegro - almost updated to 2003 data; have not done demographics or government)
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone (updated to 2003) Greenman 15 November 2003
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa - finished
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Southern Ocean
- Spain
- Spratly Islands
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Svalbard (finished)
- Swaziland (updated to 2003) Greenman 12 Nov 2003
- Sweden (finished)
- Switzerland
- Syria
T
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tromelin Island
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Tuvalu
U
V
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Virgin Islands
W
- Wake Island
- Wallis and Futuna
- West Bank See also: Palestine
- Western Sahara
- "World" entry under Earth (finished)
Y
Z
- Zambia (updated to 2003) Greenman 13 Dec 2003
- Zimbabwe (updated to 2003) Greenman 13 Nov 2003
Naming issues:
- Myanmar - entry is under Burma
- Palestine - separate entries under West Bank and Gaza Strip
The Department of State info is at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/bgn/ ; I'm going about adding that alphabetically, as well; it's taking some time because not all of the text can be cut and pasted directly, at least not without looking sloppy. Much of it has to be integrated or left unadded, and some of their information, oddly enough, conflicts with the CIA info, esp. in re: economic figures. The status of that is here
- See also : CIA World Factbook
NOTE ON SERBIA & MONTENEGRO/YUGOSLAVIA ENTRIES: Prior to the 2001 World Factbook, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was listed as Serbia & Montenegro. This was done because the US Government did not recognize the government of former leader Slobodan Milosevic. This fact was clearly made known in the entry:
Serbia and Montenegro have asserted the formation of a joint independent state, but this entity has not been formally recognized as a state by the US. The US view is that the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) has dissolved and that none of the successor republics represents its continuation.
After Milosevic was ousted in 2000, the CIA started to refer to the nation as Yugoslavia. So, the point of the matter is: When dealing with older editions of the Factbook before 2001, the data listed under Serbia and Montenegro is for the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and not the new state that came into effect in Feburary 2003.
Environmental Agreements
(Appendix C (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/appendix/appendix-c.html) in the CIA World Factbook)