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This is a list of FIPS 10-4 country codes for Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions.. The two-letter country codes were used by the US government for geographical data processing in many publications, such as the CIA World Factbook.
This template is for linking to pages of The World Factbook, a publication of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Usage The template wraps {{ cite web }} : All parameters for {{ cite web }} are accepted.
The World Factbook is an annual publication of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. As of July 2011, The World Factbook consists of 267 entities. [1] These entities can be divided into categories. [2] These categories are: Independent countries; Others
In the 2004 edition of the Factbook, the name of the entry was changed back to Macedonia, following a November 2004 U.S. decision to refer to the country using this name. [46] [47] [48] On February 19, 2019, the entry was renamed to North Macedonia following the country's name change to the Republic of North Macedonia.
List of terms for country subdivisions; List of national capitals serving as administrative divisions; List of autonomous areas by country; List of sovereign states; List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions.
In 2003, the CIA began to covertly arm and finance Somali warlords opposed to the Islamic Courts Union (ICU). [7] From the CIA station in Nairobi, Kenya CIA agents would make frequent trips to Mogadishu by plane where they would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to the warlords. The CIAs policy was evaluated as a failure, due to the ICU ...
The label for the country: List of sovereign states; List of alternative country names; List of countries and dependencies and their capitals in native languages; List of countries named after people; List of country-name etymologies; List of country names in various languages; List of countries that include United States in their name
This is necessary because the template uses the country name as part of the URL. section=Section Name—this must appear as it does in the CIA World Factbook and can only be a top level section name (any other name links to the top of the article page). If parameter article is not set then the link is to the top of the CIA World Factbook home page.