World Stats and Facts

• School Years around the World  New!
• Places to See Before They Disappear   New!
• How Many Countries?
• Families of Countries
• Where the Name Fits the Place—or Does it?
• What Countries Call Themselves
• Former Place Names
• Communist Countries, Past and Present
• Territories, Colonies, and Dependencies
• Where in the World ...
• Faraway Places
• Digging to China and Other Adventures
• The World's Treasures
• Places of Pain
• Total Population of the World by Decade, 1950–2050
• Country Statistics at a Glance
• Most Vulnerable Countries
• World's 50 Poorest Countries
• Six Billion of Us
• Area and Population of Countries
• Kingdoms and Monarchs of the World
• United Nations
• Principal Organs of the United Nations
• Members of the United Nations (192 nations)
• Selected International Organizations
• Most Corrupt Countries
• Least Corrupt Countries

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