Template:CIA World Factbook link/doc

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This template is for linking to pages of The World Factbook, a publication of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

Usage

This template contains two parameters: 1) Country code (see below) and 2) Country name.

{{CIA World Factbook link|COUNTRY_CODE|COUNTRY NAME}}

expands to this wiki code:

[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/COUNTRY_CODE.html COUNTRY NAME] entry at ''[[The World Factbook]]''

which is rendered as:

COUNTRY NAME entry at The World Factbook

Notes on codes

The CIA builds the Factbook around the Federal Information Processing Standard 10-4 two letter codes; a list of these codes can found at List of FIPS country codes. However, there are a few codes used in the Factbook not at the above link. They are:

Example

{{CIA World Factbook link|ao|Angola}}

becomes:

Angola entry at The World Factbook

See also