The World Factbook
The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 265 world entities.
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We have updated several fields related to import and export data for countries, includingexport commodities,export partners,import commodities, andimport partners. The information is also available on the individual country pages.
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