The CIA World Factbook 1987

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Contents
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Notes, Definitions, and Abbreviations ix
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Aruba 11
Australia 12
Austria 13
Bahamas, The 15
Bahrain 16
Bangladesh 17
Barbados 19
Belgium 20
Belize 22
Benin 23
Bermuda 25
Bhutan 26
Bolivia 27
Botswana 28
Brazil 30
British Indian Ocean Territory 31
British Virgin Islands 32
Brunei 33
Bulgaria 34
Burkina 36
Burma 37
Burundi 38
Cambodia 40
Cameroon 41
Canada 42
Cape Verde 44
Cayman Islands 45
Central African Republic -l(i
Chad 47
Chile 49
China (Taiwan entry on page274) 50
Christmas Island 52
Colombia 53
Comoros 54
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Cook Islands 57
Costa Rica 58
Cuba 59
Cyprus 61
Czechoslovakia 62
D Denmark 64
Djibouti 05
Dominica 66
Dominican Republic 67
Ecuador 69
Egypt 70
El Salvador 72
Equatorial Guinea 74
Ethiopia 75
Falkland Islands(Islas Malvinas) 76
Faroe Islands 77
Fiji 78
Finland 79_
France 81
French Guiana 83
French Polynesia 84
Gabon 85
Gambia, The 87
Gaza Strip(see West Bank and Gaza Stripentry on page 276)
German Democratic Republic(East Germany) 88
Germany, Federal Republic of(West Germany) 90
Ghana
91_
Gibraltar 93^
Greece 9
Greenland 95
Grenada 96
Guadeloupe 98
Guatemala 99
(iuenisey 101
Guinea 102
Guinea-Bissau 103
Guyana 104
H Haiti 105
Honduras 107
Hong Kong 108
Hungary 110
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