Entries include information on many of the following: demography; physical geography; political boundaries; industry, trade, and service activities; agriculture; cultural, historical, and archeological points of interest; transportation lines; longitude, latitude, and elevations; and more. Their length varies from a brief notation on a small village to an essay on a country or region.

Online version of the Europa World Year Book; includes political and economic profiles and statistics for 250+ countries and territories.

Contains information and data related to conflicts, arms transfers, military expenditures, and states and international organizations.

Analysis of events and trends in political, security and military affairs. Includes information on internal and external threats; political context; foreign relations; military capabilities; insurgent forces and terrorist groups; defense expenditure statistics; strategic natural resources; demographic trends; infrastructure; economic indicators.

Annual publication of 100 of Political Risk Services' Country Reports, which provide assessment of potential political, financial, and economic risks to business investments and trade.

Background Notes include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. The Background Notes are updated/revised by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs as they are received from the U.S. State Department's regional bureaus.

Contains fully-translated English-language versions of all the world's constitutions (both national and sub-national), accompanied by individual commentaries, supplementary materials, including foundation documents, historical constitutions, and amendment Acts/laws.

Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Guide to history, politics and economic background of countries; included are basic statistics, profiles of governmental leaders, and other relevant data. They also include audio and video clips from the BBC archive.