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Background Notes

Background Notes are factual publications that contain information on all the countries of the world with which the United States has relations.  They include facts on the country's land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and its relations with other countries and the United States.  The Notes are updated/revised by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs as they are received from regional bureaus and are added to the database of the Department of State web site you are now using. 

In addition to the Background Note for each country listed below, each country has a "country page" containing additional information about the country.  You can access a country's page by clicking on the country name link under "OFFICIAL NAME" at the beginning of each Background Note. For a list of the countries in a region of the world (with links to respective country pages) go to the Country Information section in each of these areas: AfricaEast Asia and Pacific, Europe and Eurasia (including the New Independent States of the former U.S.S.R.), Near East, South Asia, and the Western Hemisphere 

Selected Background Notes also are available for sale in print by annual subscription  or individually from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office.

--  Afghanistan (10/04)
--  Albania (07/04)
--  Algeria (09/04)
--  Andorra (12/03)
--  Angola (09/04)
--  Antigua and Barbuda (08/04)
--  Argentina (09/04)
--  Armenia (08/04)
--  Aruba (08/04)
--  Australia (09/04)
--  Austria (09/04)
--  Azerbaijan (08/04)
--  Bahamas, The (08/04)
--  Bahrain (08/04)
--  Bangladesh (08/04)
--  Barbados (08/04)
--  Belarus (08/04)
--  Belgium (08/04)
--  Belize (08/04)
--  Benin (12/03)
--  Bermuda (07/04)
--  Bhutan (08/04)
--  Bolivia (08/04)
--  Bosnia and Herzegovina (02/04)
--  Botswana (04/04)
--  Brazil (08/04)
--  Brunei Darussalam (05/04)
--  Bulgaria (08/04)
--  Burkina Faso (06/04)
--  Burma (09/04)
--  Burundi (10/04)
--  Cambodia (10/04)
--  Cameroon (08/04)
--  Canada (07/04)
--  Cape Verde (03/04)
--  Cayman Islands (09/04)
--  Central African Republic (04/04)
--  Chad (09/04)
--  Chile (09/04)
--  China (10/04)
--  Colombia (08/04)
--  Comoros (08/04)
--  Congo, Democratic Republic of (10/03)
--  Congo, Republic of the (07/04)
--  Costa Rica (08/04)
--  Cote d'Ivoire (06/04)
--  Croatia (08/04)
--  Cuba (08/04)
--  Cyprus (08/04)
--  Czech Republic (08/04)
--  Denmark (09/04)
--  Djibouti (08/04)
--  Dominica (08/04)
--  Dominican Republic (08/04)
--  East Timor (09/04)
--  Ecuador (08/04)
--  Egypt (08/04)
--  El Salvador (08/04)
--  Equatorial Guinea (08/04)
--  Eritrea (03/04)
--  Estonia (08/04)
--  Ethiopia (04/04)
--  Fiji (08/04)
--  Finland (07/04)
--  France (09/04)
--  Gabon (08/04)
--  Gambia, The (09/04)
--  Georgia (06/04)
--  Germany (07/04)
--  Ghana (03/04)
--  Greece (08/04)
--  Grenada (10/04)
--  Guatemala (08/04)
--  Guinea (04/04)
--  Guinea-Bissau (04/04)
--  Guyana (08/04)
--  Haiti (08/04)
--  Holy See, The (02/04)
--  Honduras (09/04)
--  Hong Kong (09/04)
--  Hungary (09/04)
--  Iceland (09/04)
--  India (08/04)
--  Indonesia (08/04)
--  Iran (08/04)
--  Iraq (08/04)
--  Ireland (09/04)
--  Israel (09/04)
--  Italy (08/04)
--  Jamaica (08/04)
--  Japan (09/04)
--  Jordan (08/04)
--  Kazakhstan (09/04)
--  Kenya (07/04)
--  Kiribati (09/04)
--  Kuwait (08/04)
--  Kyrgyzstan (03/04)
--  Laos (08/04)
--  Latvia (07/04)
--  Lebanon (08/04)
--  Lesotho (10/04)
--  Liberia (06/04)
--  Libya (10/04)
--  Liechtenstein (08/04)
--  Lithuania (07/04)
--  Luxembourg (07/04)
--  Macau (12/03)
--  Macedonia (08/04)
--  Madagascar (11/03)
--  Malawi (07/04)
--  Malaysia (09/04)
--  Maldives (09/04)
--  Mali (05/04)
--  Malta (10/04)
--  Marshall Islands (10/04)
--  Mauritania (06/04)
--  Mauritius (12/03)
--  Mexico (09/04)
--  Micronesia (10/04)
--  Moldova (07/04)
--  Monaco (03/04)
--  Mongolia (08/04)
--  Morocco (09/04)
--  Mozambique (09/04)
--  Namibia (03/04)
--  Nauru (08/04)
--  Nepal (08/04)
--  Netherlands (06/04)
--  Netherlands Antilles (08/04)
--  New Zealand (09/04)
--  Nicaragua (08/04)
--  Niger (03/04)
--  Nigeria (04/04)
--  North Korea (08/04)
--  Norway (07/04)
--  Oman (09/04)
--  Pakistan (09/04)
--  Palau (10/04)
--  Panama (09/04)
--  Papua New Guinea (09/04)
--  Paraguay (09/04)
--  Peru (08/04)
--  Philippines (09/04)
--  Poland (07/04)
--  Portugal (08/04)
--  Qatar (08/04)
--  Romania (08/04)
--  Russia (04/04)
--  Rwanda (07/04)
--  Samoa (11/03)
--  San Marino (10/04)
--  Sao Tome and Principe (05/04)
--  Saudi Arabia (09/04)
--  Senegal (05/04)
--  Serbia and Montenegro (07/04)
--  Seychelles (03/04)
--  Sierra Leone (11/03)
--  Singapore (08/04)
--  Slovakia (09/04)
--  Slovenia (08/04)
--  Solomon Islands (08/04)
--  Somalia (09/04)
--  South Africa (07/04)
--  South Korea (08/04)
--  Spain (04/04)
--  Sri Lanka (09/04)
--  St. Kitts and Nevis (08/04)
--  St. Lucia (08/04)
--  St. Vincent and the Grenadines (08/04)
--  Sudan (03/04)
--  Suriname (08/04)
--  Swaziland (07/04)
--  Sweden (06/04)
--  Switzerland (09/04)
--  Syria (08/04)
--  Taiwan (09/04)
--  Tajikistan (03/04)
--  Tanzania (11/03)
--  Thailand (09/04)
--  Togo (11/03)
--  Tonga (08/04)
--  Trinidad and Tobago (08/04)
--  Tunisia (09/04)
--  Turkey (08/04)
--  Turkmenistan (09/04)
--  Tuvalu (12/03)
--  Uganda (12/03)
--  Ukraine (08/04)
--  United Arab Emirates (09/04)
--  United Kingdom (08/04)
--  Uruguay (08/04)
--  Uzbekistan (04/04)
--  Vanuatu (08/04)
--  Venezuela (08/04)
--  Vietnam (09/04)
--  Yemen (09/04)
--  Zambia (09/04)
--  Zimbabwe (11/03)

  
  
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