Government Documents Internet Guide

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

This annual report covers internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights in each foreign country.

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.

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.