CIA World Factbook
"The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities."
BBC Country Profiles
"Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions."
World Bank Country Pages
Links to the World Bank's information on each country of the World. From each countries page is a link to data the World Bank collects on that country.
