Doug Kanter wrote:

Probably right...but, sheesh, the CIA Handbook?

Quick & easy, as long as you don't need a ton of detail.

A ****load of people at the CIA have extremely boring jobs.

I don't know why this is but when looking up maps of countries and basic
statistics, a good many are from CIA data. Must be a free source. Not
very detailed and often not very current.
LZ