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The 2002 CIA World Factbook

Part II - (136 less developed countries) Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zimbabwe (continued 3)

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___________________________________________________________________________ Vaduz (capital)_____________________________|Liechtenstein|47 09 N| 9 31 E Vakhan (Wakhan Corridor)____________________|Afghanistan__|37 00 N| 73 00 E Valletta (capital)__________________________|Malta________|35 54 N| 14 31 E Valley, The (capital)_______________________|Anguilla_____|18 13 N| 63 04 W Van Diemen Strait (Osumi Strait)____________|Pacific Ocean|31 00 N|131 00 E Vancouver Island____________________________|Canada_______|49 45 N|126 00 W Vatican City (capital)______________________|Holy See_____|41 54 N| 12 27 E Velez de la Gomera, Penon de (island)_______|Spain________|35 11 N| 4 18 W Venda (enclave)_____________________________|South Africa |23 00 S| 31 00 E Verde Island Passage________________________|Pacific Ocean|13 34 N|120 51 E Victoria (capital)__________________________|Seychelles___| 4 38 S| 55 27 E Victoria (city; former name of seaport city |Hong Kong |22 17 N|114 09 E in Hong Kong colony)________________________|_____________|_______|________ Victoria (island)___________________________|Canada_______|71 00 N|110 00 W Victoria Land (region)______________________|Antarctica___|72 00 S|155 00 E Vienna (capital)____________________________|Austria______|48 12 N| 16 22 E Vientiane (capital)_________________________|Laos_________|17 58 N|102 36 E Vilnius (capital)___________________________|Lithuania____|54 41 N| 25 19 E Viti Levu (island)__________________________|Fiji_________|18 00 S|178 00 E Vladivostok (city)__________________________|Russia_______|43 10 N|131 56 E Vojvodina (region)__________________________|Yugoslavia___|45 35 N| 20 00 E Volcano Islands_____________________________|Japan________|25 00 N|141 00 E Vostok Island_______________________________|Kiribati_____|10 06 S|152 23 W Vrangelya, Ostrov (Wrangel Island) _________|Russia_______|71 14 N|179 36 W

___________________________________________________________________________ Wake Atoll________________________|Wake Island____________|19 17 N|166 36 E Wakhan Corridor (see Vakhan)______|Afghanistan____________|37 00 N| 73 00 E Walachia (region)_________________|Romania________________|44 45 N| 26 05 E Wales (region)____________________|United Kingdom_________|52 30 N| 3 30 W Wallis Islands____________________|Wallis and Futuna______|13 17 S|176 10 W Walvis Bay (former exclave) (city)|Namibia________________|22 59 S| 14 31 E Warsaw (capital)__________________|Poland_________________|52 15 N| 21 00 E Washington, DC (capital)__________|United States__________|38 53 N| 77 02 W Weddell Sea_______________________|Southern Ocean_________|72 00 S| 45 00 W Wellington (capital)______________|New Zealand____________|41 28 S|174 51 E West Frisian Islands______________|Netherlands____________|53 26 N| 5 30 E West Germany (Federal Republic of |Germany |53 22 N| 5 20 E Germany) (former name for western | | | portion of Germany)_______________|_______________________|_______|________ West Island (capital)_____________|Cocos (Keeling) Islands|12 10 S| 96 55 E West Korea Strait (Western |Pacific Ocean |34 40 N|129 00 E Channel)__________________________|_______________________|_______|________ West Pakistan (former name for |Pakistan |30 00 N| 70 00 E western portion of Pakistan)______|_______________________|_______|________ West Siberian Plain_______________|Russia_________________|60 00 N| 75 00 E Western Channel (West Korea |Pacific Ocean |34 40 N|129 00 E Strait)___________________________|_______________________|_______|________ Western Samoa (former name for |Samoa |13 35 S|172 20 W Samoa)____________________________|_______________________|_______|________ Wetar Strait______________________|Pacific Ocean__________| 8 20 S|126 30 E White Sea_________________________|Arctic Ocean___________|65 30 N| 38 00 E Wilkes Land (region)______________|Antarctica_____________|71 00 S|120 00 E Willemstad (capital)______________|Netherlands Antilles___|12 06 N| 68 56 W Windhoek (capital)________________|Namibia________________|22 34 S| 17 06 E Windward Passage__________________|Atlantic Ocean_________|20 00 N| 73 50 W Wrangel Island (Ostrov Vrangelya) |Russia_________________|71 14 N|179 36 W

___________________________________________________________________________ Xianggang (local name for Hong Kong) |Hong Kong|22 15 N|114 10 E

___________________________________________________________________________ Y`israel (local name for |Israel |31 30 N| 34 45 E Isreal)_______________________|___________________________|_______|________ Yaitopya (local name for |Ethiopia | 8 00 N| 38 00 E Ethiopia)_____________________|___________________________|_______|________ Yalu River____________________|China, North Korea_________|39 55 N|124 20 E Yamoussoukro (capital)________|Cote d'Ivoire______________| 6 49 N| 5 17 W Yangon (see Rangoon)__________|Burma______________________|16 47 N| 96 10 E Yaounde (capital)_____________|Cameroon___________________| 3 52 N| 11 31 E Yap Islands |Federated States of | 9 30 N|138 00 E ______________________________|Micronesia_________________|_______|________ Yaren (governmental center)___|Nauru______________________| 0 32 S|166 55 E Yekaterinburg (city; former |Russia |56 50 N| 60 39 E name for Sverdlovsk)__________|___________________________|_______|________ Yellow Sea____________________|Pacific Ocean______________|36 00 N|123 00 E Yemen (Aden) (People's |Yemen |14 00 N| 46 00 E Democratic Republic of Yemen) | | | (former name for southern | | | portion of Yemen)_____________|___________________________|_______|________ Yemen (Sanaa) (Yemen Arab |Yemen |15 00 N| 44 00 E Republic) (former name for | | | northern portion of Yemen)____|___________________________|_______|________ Yemen Arab Republic (former |Yemen |15 00 N| 44 00 E name for northern portion of | | | Yemen)________________________|___________________________|_______|________ Yemen, North (Yemen Arab |Yemen |15 00 N| 44 00 E Republic) (former name for | | | northern portion of Yemen)____|___________________________|_______|________ Yemen, People's Democratic |Yemen |14 00 N| 46 00 E Republic of (former name for | | | southern portion of Yemen)____|___________________________|_______|________ Yemen, South (People's |Yemen |14 00 N| 46 00 E Democratic Republic of Yemen) | | | (former name for southern | | | portion of Yemen)_____________|___________________________|_______|________ Yerevan (capital)_____________|Armenia____________________|40 11 N| 44 30 E Youth, Isle of (Isla de la |Cuba |21 40 N| 82 50 W Juventud)_____________________|___________________________|_______|________ Yucatan Channel_______________|Atlantic Ocean_____________|21 45 N| 85 45 W Yucatan Peninsula_____________|Mexico_____________________|19 30 N| 89 00 W Yugoslavia (former name for a |Bosnia and Herzegovina, | | confederation of states in |Croatia,The Former Yugoslav| | the western Balkan peninsula) |Republic of Macedonia, | | |Federal Republic of | | |Yugoslavia (Serbia and | | ______________________________|Montenegro), Slovenia______|_______|________

___________________________________________________________________________ Zagreb (capital)________________|Croatia__________________|45 48 N| 15 58 E Zaire (former name for the |Democratic Republic of |15 00 S| 30 00 E Democratic Republic of the |the Congo | | Congo)__________________________|_________________________|_______|________ Zakhalinskiy Zaliv (bay)________|Pacific Ocean____________|54 00 N|142 00 E Zaliv Shelikhova (bay)__________|Pacific Ocean____________|60 00 N|157 30 E Zambezia (region)_______________|Mozambique_______________|16 00 S| 37 00 E Zanzibar (island)_______________|Tanzania_________________| 6 10 S| 39 11 E Zhong Guo (local name for |China |35 00 N|105 00 E China)__________________________|_________________________|_______|________ Zhonghua (local name for China) |China____________________|35 00 N|105 00 E Zion, Mount (locale in |Israel, West Bank |31 46 N| 35 14 E Jerusalem)______________________|_________________________|_______|________ Zurich (city)___________________|Switzerland______________|47 23 N| 8 32 E

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