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World Factbook Harvester

The World Factbook Harvester is an advanced data minining tool that harvests information from CIA's World Factbook. The data are stored in an MS Access database. You can also export them in Excel.

You will also need to download geos.zip from Central Intelligence Agency Download Page. You will have to extract this file locally. This file contains information for all countries world-wide.

The current version harvests the following information:
Country name, Background, Location, Geograph note, Land boundaries. If you need more fields, please contact me for a quote.

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Screenshots
Screenshot1: specify the GEOS folder
Screenshot2: select what information to harvest