The 1993 CIA World Factbook

"The 1993 CIA World Factbook" by the United States Central Intelligence Agency is a comprehensive reference publication compiled in the early 1990s. This edition serves as a detailed resource for information regarding various countries and territories of the world, specifically focusing on aspects like geography, demographics, economy, and government structures. At the start of this edition, the authors outline the process of its compilation and present a structure to facilitate the retrieval of information efficiently. The preliminary edition includes an extensive list of countries, followed by detailed entries that cover a range of topics such as geography, population statistics, economic indicators, government forms, and more. The opening portion sets the stage for readers to engage with a trove of global facts that can serve as a vital tool for researchers, students, policymakers, and anyone interested in understanding the geopolitical landscape during that period. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

The Central Intelligence Agency, known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations. The agency is headquartered in the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.