Edition 32 of 36
The 2021 edition. As published.
The 2021 edition of the CIA World Factbook, recovered from the CIA’s web data. Each entry is listed under the name this edition gave it and opens as it was published.
- country entries
- 260
- fields of text
- 39,714
- new since the 2020 edition
- 0
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By region
- World1 1 entry
- Africa55 55 entries
- Antarctic Region5 5 entries
- Arctic Region4 4 entries
- Asia23 23 entries
- Central America and the Caribbean33 33 entries
- Europe49 49 entries
- Middle East19 19 entries
- North America6 6 entries
- Oceania28 28 entries
- South America13 13 entries
- Southeast Asia19 19 entries
- Oceans5 5 entries
Also in the 2020 editionNew in 2021
Fields in this edition
- Area 260
- Area - comparative 260
- Background 260
- Climate 260
- Economic overview 260
- Environment - current issues 260
- Map references 260
- Coastline 259
- Country name 259
- Geography - note 259
- Location 259
- Elevation 258
- All fields
Every entry
A
- Afghanistan, 179 fields
- Akrotiri, 43 fields
- Albania, 174 fields
- Algeria, 174 fields
- American Samoa, 134 fields
- Andorra, 141 fields
- Angola, 179 fields
- Anguilla, 116 fields
- Antarctica, 35 fields
- Antigua and Barbuda, 158 fields
- Arctic Ocean, 21 fields
- Argentina, 182 fields
- Armenia, 170 fields
- Aruba, 150 fields
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands, 44 fields
- Atlantic Ocean, 22 fields
- Australia, 180 fields
- Austria, 179 fields
- Azerbaijan, 174 fields
B
- Bahamas, Thenow The Bahamas, 162 fields
- Bahrain, 167 fields
- Bangladesh, 181 fields
- Barbados, 164 fields
- Belarus, 176 fields
- Belgium, 174 fields
- Belize, 166 fields
- Benin, 176 fields
- Bermuda, 150 fields
- Bhutan, 159 fields
- Bolivia, 177 fields
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, 174 fields
- Botswana, 172 fields
- Bouvet Island, 41 fields
- Brazil, 181 fields
- British Indian Ocean Territory, 53 fields
- British Virgin Islands, 143 fields
- Brunei, 165 fields
- Bulgaria, 176 fields
- Burkina Faso, 175 fields
- Burmanow Burma (Myanmar), 179 fields
- Burundi, 175 fields
C
- Cabo Verde, 165 fields
- Cambodia, 181 fields
- Cameroon, 183 fields
- Canada, 180 fields
- Cayman Islands, 148 fields
- Central African Republic, 171 fields
- Chad, 177 fields
- Chile, 172 fields
- China, 182 fields
- Christmas Island, 90 fields
- Clipperton Island, 39 fields
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, 90 fields
- Colombia, 182 fields
- Comoros, 163 fields
- Congo, Democratic Republic of thenow Democratic Republic of the Congo, 184 fields
- Congo, Republic of thenow Republic of the Congo, 176 fields
- Cook Islands, 146 fields
- Coral Sea Islands, 44 fields
- Costa Rica, 171 fields
- Cote d'Ivoire, 180 fields
- Croatia, 177 fields
- Cuba, 169 fields
- Curacao, 141 fields
- Cyprus, 172 fields
- Czechia, 175 fields
D
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G
- Gabon, 174 fields
- Gambia, Thenow The Gambia, 171 fields
- Gaza Strip, 112 fields
- Georgia, 170 fields
- Germany, 178 fields
- Ghana, 179 fields
- Gibraltar, 137 fields
- Greece, 173 fields
- Greenland, 149 fields
- Grenada, 156 fields
- Guam, 144 fields
- Guatemala, 177 fields
- Guernsey, 107 fields
- Guinea, 175 fields
- Guinea-Bissau, 167 fields
- Guyana, 171 fields
H
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M
- Macau, 153 fields
- Madagascar, 170 fields
- Malawi, 177 fields
- Malaysia, 177 fields
- Maldives, 167 fields
- Mali, 184 fields
- Malta, 167 fields
- Marshall Islands, 157 fields
- Mauritania, 178 fields
- Mauritius, 167 fields
- Mexico, 181 fields
- Micronesia, Federated States ofnow Federated States of Micronesia, 150 fields
- Moldova, 173 fields
- Monaco, 122 fields
- Mongolia, 173 fields
- Montenegro, 173 fields
- Montserrat, 137 fields
- Morocco, 177 fields
- Mozambique, 181 fields
N
- Namibia, 176 fields
- Nauru, 151 fields
- Nepal, 173 fields
- Netherlands, 177 fields
- New Caledonia, 150 fields
- New Zealand, 172 fields
- Nicaragua, 173 fields
- Niger, 183 fields
- Nigeria, 186 fields
- Niue, 135 fields
- Norfolk Island, 91 fields
- North Macedonia, 169 fields
- Northern Mariana Islands, 120 fields
- Norway, 171 fields
O
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S
- Saint Barthelemy, 75 fields
- Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha, 135 fields
- Saint Kitts and Nevis, 156 fields
- Saint Lucia, 156 fields
- Saint Martin, 84 fields
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon, 130 fields
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 156 fields
- Samoa, 159 fields
- San Marino, 126 fields
- Sao Tome and Principe, 166 fields
- Saudi Arabia, 177 fields
- Senegal, 182 fields
- Serbia, 175 fields
- Seychelles, 166 fields
- Sierra Leone, 170 fields
- Singapore, 170 fields
- Sint Maarten, 102 fields
- Slovakia, 174 fields
- Slovenia, 173 fields
- Solomon Islands, 162 fields
- Somalia, 166 fields
- South Africa, 177 fields
- South Georgia and South Sandwich Islandsnow South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, 44 fields
- South Sudan, 158 fields
- Southern Ocean, 22 fields
- Spain, 177 fields
- Spratly Islands, 41 fields
- Sri Lanka, 175 fields
- Sudan, 180 fields
- Suriname, 170 fields
- Svalbard, 88 fields
- Sweden, 173 fields
- Switzerland, 178 fields
- Syria, 173 fields
T
- Taiwan, 153 fields
- Tajikistan, 173 fields
- Tanzania, 184 fields
- Thailand, 180 fields
- Timor-Leste, 169 fields
- Togo, 177 fields
- Tokelau, 103 fields
- Tonga, 163 fields
- Trinidad and Tobago, 164 fields
- Tunisia, 170 fields
- Turkeynow Turkiye, 181 fields
- Turkmenistan, 175 fields
- Turks and Caicos Islands, 141 fields
- Tuvalu, 145 fields
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Each entry shows how many fields this edition published for it, in amber where the entry is new since the 2020 edition. Where the Factbook later renamed an entry, its current name is under the one this edition used. Regions follow the Factbook’s own reference maps.