Finding Country Information: Country Overviews

Historical, political and economic background. Includes audio and video clips from the BBC.

Political, geographic, economic, and sociological summaries organized by country.

Explores the cultures of countries and peoples around the world.

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) reports include recent news articles, country profiles, forecasts, fact sheets, and economic data.

This online collection provides electronic versions of 80 books previously published from 1980-2019 as part of the Country Studies Series by the Library of Congress Federal Research Division. Intended for a general audience, books in this historical series present a comprehensive description of the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of select countries throughout the world. See the U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets for more recent summaries.

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