Government Documents @ Ferris State

Foreign Countries and International Information

CIA World Factbook
Basic information about every country in the world: communications, defense, economy, flag and map, geography, government, people, and transportation.

Human Rights Reports
From the State Department, this annual report covers internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights in each foreign country.

Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Handbooks
This Web site contains the online versions of books previously published (1988-98) in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program.

U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets
Published by the State Department, U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets contains information about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty.