European News and Country Backgrounds: Country Information

[Economist Intelligence Unit]
Use the Geography heading in the main menu to select reports for individual countries.

Political, social and economic information about 250+ countries; incudes country maps and a directory of business, cultural and political organizations in each country and 1,900+ international organizations.

Focuses on country politics, but also addresses the media in each country. The latest print edition of this biennial title is shelved in the Ready Reference collection near the Walk-In Reference Room in Olin Library. Earlier editions are shelved in the Olin Library Stacks JF 37 .P76 +.
Also available online.

From U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
"...information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities."

Now includes rich supplementary material (maps, data, news, articles, website links and more).

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