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What's the World Factbook?

The World Factbook [1][2] published by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)offers free country profiles in the public domain (that is, no copyright(s), no rights reserved).

• [1]The World Factbook
• [2]Wikipedia Article: The World Factbook

Note: This repo stores "chrome-less" copies of the official online "live" pages(and not copies of the pages included in the archive for bulk download, for example).Since the offical pages have a lot of chrome e.g. page decoration such as sitenavigation headers, footers, scripts, etc. around the "core" country profilea script cleans up the profile page and strips it down to the basics.

Using these "core" country profile pages without any extra headers, footers, scripts, etc.should make it easier to keep track of changes and turn it into structured data (e.g. factbook.json)even as some formatting and styles get rearranged on the official site.

Seefactbook.github.io for "live" browsing allcountry profiles stored in the_profiles/ folder.

Sections useh2's. Examples:

<h2>Introduction</h2><!-- starts the section Introduction -->...<h2>Geography</h2><!-- starts the section Geography -->...<h2>People and Society</h2>...<h2>Government</h2>...

Subsections (fields) useh3's. Examples:

<h3>Background:</h3><!-- starts the subsection Background -->...<h3>Location:</h3><!-- starts the subsection Location -->...<h3>Geographic coordinates:</h3>...<h3>Map references:</h3>...<h3>Area:</h3>...

Simple:

<divclass=category_data>Central Europe, north of Italy and Slovenia</div>...<divclass=category_data>1.46 children born/woman (2015 est.)</div>

Simple (with Note):

<divclass=category_data>69.6%</div><div><spanclass=category>note:</span><spanclass=category_data>percent of women aged 18-46 (2008/09)</span></div>

"Nested":

<div><spanclass=category>total population:</span><spanclass=category_data>81.39 years</span></div><div><spanclass=category>male:</span><spanclass=category_data>78.76 years</span></div><div><spanclass=category>female:</span><spanclass=category_data>84.15 years (2015 est.)</span></div>

Note: All (style) classes get stripped except:

• category
• category_data

All country comparison links get stripped.All field reference links and images get stripped.The audio player (for the national anthem) gets stripped.

Send them along to theOpen World Database (world.db) and Friends Forum/Mailing List.Thanks!