The CIA World Factbook Every edition, 1990 to 2025 Europe
Country name Gibraltar, in 35 editions.
The entry for Gibraltar published Country name in 35 editions of 36, from 1990 to 2025. The text changed in 7 editions. Each is shown as published. Country name in every entry.
- editions changed the text
- 7
- the first edition with it
- 1990
- the latest edition with it
- 2025
Published as “Long-form name” (1990 to 1992), “Names” (1993 to 1995), “Name of country” (1996) and “Country name” (1997 to 2025).
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2025 edition
Changed since 2024The same text in 3 editions, 1990 to 1992.
Published as “Long-form name”
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Published as “Names”
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Gibraltar
conventional long form:
none
conventional short form:
Gibraltar
The entry for Gibraltar did not include Country name.
Published as “Names”
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Gibraltar
conventional long form:
conventional short form:
Published as “Name of country”
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Gibraltar
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Gibraltar
The same text in 4 editions, 1997 to 2000.
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Gibraltar
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Gibraltar
- conventional long form:
- none conventional short form: Gibraltar
conventional long form: none
The same text in 7 editions, 2002 to 2008.
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Gibraltar
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Gibraltar
The same text in 6 editions, 2009 to 2014.
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Gibraltar
conventional long form:
none
conventional short form:
Gibraltar
The same text in 10 editions, 2015 to 2024.
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Gibraltar
- etymology:
- from the Spanish derivation of the Arabic "Jabal Tariq," which means "Mountain of Tariq" and which refers to the Rock of Gibraltar
Rewritten: too little of the 2014 text remains to mark the changes.
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Gibraltar
etymology: from the Spanish derivation of the Arabic "Jabal Tariq," which means "Mountain of Tariq" and which refers to the Rock of Gibraltar
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Gibraltar
- etymology:
- from the Spanish derivation of the Arabic jabal tariq , which means "Mountain of Tariq" and refers to the Berber chief who captured the peninsula in A.D. 711
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Gibraltar
etymology: from the Spanish derivation of the Arabic "Jabal Tariq," jabal tariq , which means "Mountain of Tariq" and which refers to the Rock of Gibraltar Berber chief who captured the peninsula in A.D. 711
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Central Intelligence Agency. “Gibraltar: Country name.” The World Factbook, 1990–2025 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/gibraltar/country-name.