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@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ What's the World Factbook?
The World Factbook [1][2] published by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
offers free country profiles in the public domain (that is, no copyright(s), no rights reserved, no license).
- [1] [The World Factbook](https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
- [1] [The World Factbook](https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/)
- [2] [Wikipedia Article: The World Factbook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Factbook)
**Note: All country profiles use the original / official two-letter GEC (formerly FIPS) codes and NOT the ISO codes (you
@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from another talk. Happy exploring the world with JavaScript Object Notation (JS
### Q: Why not just use the ISO country codes? Not a bug, a feature request.
A: The factbook has many more entities / countries than ISO and sometimes with a different definition -
it's NOT an easy 1:1 mapping, see [Appendix D - Cross-Reference List of Country Data Codes](https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/appendix/appendix-d.html).
it's NOT an easy 1:1 mapping, see [Cross-Reference List of Country Data Codes](https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/references/country-data-codes/).
### Q: I noticed that you've got Zambian data under ZA for the African region... It should be South African data...