Edition 34 of 36
The 2023 edition. As published.
The 2023 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
- 37,558
- new since the 2022 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 2022 editionNew in 2023
Fields in this edition
- Area 260
- Area - comparative 260
- Background 260
- Climate 260
- Environment - current issues 260
- Map references 260
- Coastline 259
- Country name 259
- Geography - note 259
- Location 259
- Elevation 258
- Geographic coordinates 258
- All fields
Every entry
A
- Afghanistan, 167 fields
- Akrotiri, 40 fields
- Albania, 163 fields
- Algeria, 168 fields
- American Samoa, 125 fields
- Andorra, 125 fields
- Angola, 169 fields
- Anguilla, 119 fields
- Antarctica, 40 fields
- Antigua and Barbuda, 149 fields
- Arctic Ocean, 23 fields
- Argentina, 178 fields
- Armenia, 164 fields
- Aruba, 138 fields
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands, 40 fields
- Atlantic Ocean, 24 fields
- Australia, 174 fields
- Austria, 171 fields
- Azerbaijan, 165 fields
B
- Bahamas, Thenow The Bahamas, 152 fields
- Bahrain, 160 fields
- Bangladesh, 172 fields
- Barbados, 151 fields
- Belarus, 171 fields
- Belgium, 167 fields
- Belize, 157 fields
- Benin, 164 fields
- Bermuda, 140 fields
- Bhutan, 146 fields
- Bolivia, 170 fields
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, 161 fields
- Botswana, 163 fields
- Bouvet Island, 37 fields
- Brazil, 174 fields
- British Indian Ocean Territory, 57 fields
- British Virgin Islands, 131 fields
- Brunei, 157 fields
- Bulgaria, 169 fields
- Burkina Faso, 161 fields
- Burmanow Burma (Myanmar), 168 fields
- Burundi, 163 fields
C
- Cabo Verde, 155 fields
- Cambodia, 168 fields
- Cameroon, 172 fields
- Canada, 175 fields
- Cayman Islands, 138 fields
- Central African Republic, 162 fields
- Chad, 165 fields
- Chile, 164 fields
- China, 178 fields
- Christmas Island, 86 fields
- Clipperton Island, 36 fields
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, 86 fields
- Colombia, 174 fields
- Comoros, 150 fields
- Congo, Democratic Republic of thenow Democratic Republic of the Congo, 173 fields
- Congo, Republic of thenow Republic of the Congo, 169 fields
- Cook Islands, 134 fields
- Coral Sea Islands, 40 fields
- Costa Rica, 164 fields
- Cote d'Ivoire, 169 fields
- Croatia, 166 fields
- Cuba, 161 fields
- Curacao, 129 fields
- Cyprus, 158 fields
- Czechia, 165 fields
D
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- Gabon, 163 fields
- Gambia, Thenow The Gambia, 159 fields
- Gaza Strip, 113 fields
- Georgia, 163 fields
- Germany, 173 fields
- Ghana, 168 fields
- Gibraltar, 127 fields
- Greece, 164 fields
- Greenland, 135 fields
- Grenada, 144 fields
- Guam, 133 fields
- Guatemala, 165 fields
- Guernsey, 112 fields
- Guinea, 162 fields
- Guinea-Bissau, 156 fields
- Guyana, 157 fields
H
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M
- Macau, 139 fields
- Madagascar, 160 fields
- Malawi, 168 fields
- Malaysia, 168 fields
- Maldives, 157 fields
- Mali, 171 fields
- Malta, 157 fields
- Marshall Islands, 138 fields
- Mauritania, 167 fields
- Mauritius, 154 fields
- Mexico, 173 fields
- Micronesia, Federated States ofnow Federated States of Micronesia, 140 fields
- Moldova, 160 fields
- Monaco, 122 fields
- Mongolia, 167 fields
- Montenegro, 163 fields
- Montserrat, 128 fields
- Morocco, 169 fields
- Mozambique, 171 fields
N
- Namibia, 165 fields
- Nauru, 138 fields
- Nepal, 161 fields
- Netherlands, 169 fields
- New Caledonia, 136 fields
- New Zealand, 168 fields
- Nicaragua, 162 fields
- Niger, 170 fields
- Nigeria, 174 fields
- Niue, 121 fields
- Norfolk Island, 91 fields
- North Macedonia, 158 fields
- Northern Mariana Islands, 121 fields
- Norway, 166 fields
O
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S
- Saint Barthelemy, 77 fields
- Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha, 124 fields
- Saint Kitts and Nevis, 146 fields
- Saint Lucia, 145 fields
- Saint Martin, 87 fields
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon, 119 fields
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 147 fields
- Samoa, 146 fields
- San Marino, 126 fields
- Sao Tome and Principe, 152 fields
- Saudi Arabia, 169 fields
- Senegal, 169 fields
- Serbia, 165 fields
- Seychelles, 155 fields
- Sierra Leone, 157 fields
- Singapore, 163 fields
- Sint Maarten, 101 fields
- Slovakia, 169 fields
- Slovenia, 163 fields
- Solomon Islands, 152 fields
- Somalia, 154 fields
- South Africa, 174 fields
- South Georgia and South Sandwich Islandsnow South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, 43 fields
- South Sudan, 146 fields
- Southern Ocean, 23 fields
- Spain, 168 fields
- Spratly Islands, 38 fields
- Sri Lanka, 166 fields
- Sudan, 168 fields
- Suriname, 159 fields
- Svalbard, 79 fields
- Sweden, 169 fields
- Switzerland, 171 fields
- Syria, 162 fields
T
- Taiwan, 147 fields
- Tajikistan, 165 fields
- Tanzania, 171 fields
- Thailand, 172 fields
- Timor-Leste, 157 fields
- Togo, 164 fields
- Tokelau, 100 fields
- Tonga, 152 fields
- Trinidad and Tobago, 151 fields
- Tunisia, 164 fields
- Turkey (Turkiye)now Turkiye, 173 fields
- Turkmenistan, 172 fields
- Turks and Caicos Islands, 133 fields
- Tuvalu, 137 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 2022 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.