Notes and Definitions
- Capital:
- This entry gives the location of the seat of government.
- Climate:
- This entry includes a brief description of typical weather regimes throughout the year.
- Coastline:
- This entry gives the total length of the boundary between the land area (including islands) and the sea.
- Communications:
- This category deals with the means of exchanging information and includes the telephone, radio, television, and Internet host entries.
- Communications - note:
- This entry includes miscellaneous communications information of significance not included elsewhere.
- Constitution:
- This entry includes the dates of adoption, revisions, and major amendments.
- Country map:
- Most versions of the Factbook provide a country map in color. The maps were produced from the best information available at the time of preparation. Names and/or boundaries may have changed subsequently.
- Country name:
- This entry includes all forms of the country's name approved
by the US Board on Geographic Names (Italy is used as an example):
- conventional long form (Italian Republic), conventional short form (Italy), local long form (Repubblica Italiana), local short form (Italia), former (Kingdom of Italy), as well as the abbreviation. Also see the Terminology note.
- Crude oil:
- See entry for oil.
- Current account balance:
- This entry records a country's net trade in goods and services, plus net earnings from rents, interest, profits, and dividends, and net transfer payments (such as pension funds and worker remittances) to and from the rest of the world during the period specified. These figures are calculated on an exchange rate basis, i.e., not in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms.
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