International

As a researcher, and especially a researcher who respects the fragility of the Internet, I try to maintain several favorite spots in a research category. If I want to research cars over a long period of time, for example, I try to be aware of several different spots for researching cars.

But when it comes to international research—that is, research on individual countries—there's only one place I want to go, and that's the awesome CIA World Factbook. Once you've visited the Factbook, you can take just one bit of information from it and do some detailed Google searches. And if you're looking for information on groups of countries, there's another Google trick I can show you. But it's all going to start with the CIA World Factbook. ...

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