The 2008 CIA World Factbook, United States. Central Intelligence Agency [primary phonics books .TXT] 📗

id="id90538">Southern Ocean
  the Southern Ocean is deep, 4,000 to 5,000 m over
  most of its extent with only limited areas of shallow water; the
  Antarctic continental shelf is generally narrow and unusually deep,
  its edge lying at depths of 400 to 800 m (the global mean is 133 m);
  the Antarctic icepack grows from an average minimum of 2.6 million
  sq km in March to about 18.8 million sq km in September, better than
  a sixfold increase in area; the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
  (21,000 km in length) moves perpetually eastward; it is the world's
  largest ocean current, transporting 130 million cubic meters of
  water per second - 100 times the flow of all the world's rivers

Spain
  large, flat to dissected plateau surrounded by rugged hills;
  Pyrenees in north

Spratly Islands
  flat

Sri Lanka
  mostly low, flat to rolling plain; mountains in
  south-central interior

Sudan
  generally flat, featureless plain; mountains in far south,
  northeast and west; desert dominates the north

Suriname
  mostly rolling hills; narrow coastal plain with swamps

Svalbard
  wild, rugged mountains; much of high land ice covered; west
  coast clear of ice about one-half of the year; fjords along west and
  north coasts

Swaziland
  mostly mountains and hills; some moderately sloping plains

Sweden
  mostly flat or gently rolling lowlands; mountains in west

Switzerland
  mostly mountains (Alps in south, Jura in northwest) with
  a central plateau of rolling hills, plains, and large lakes

Syria
  primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain;
  mountains in west

Taiwan
  eastern two-thirds mostly rugged mountains; flat to gently
  rolling plains in west

Tajikistan
  Pamir and Alay Mountains dominate landscape; western
  Fergana Valley in north, Kofarnihon and Vakhsh Valleys in southwest

Tanzania
  plains along coast; central plateau; highlands in north,
  south

Thailand
  central plain; Khorat Plateau in the east; mountains
  elsewhere

Timor-Leste
  mountainous

Togo
  gently rolling savanna in north; central hills; southern
  plateau; low coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes

Tokelau
  low-lying coral atolls enclosing large lagoons

Tonga
  most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted coral
  formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base

Trinidad and Tobago
  mostly plains with some hills and low mountains

Tunisia
  mountains in north; hot, dry central plain; semiarid south
  merges into the Sahara

Turkey
  high central plateau (Anatolia); narrow coastal plain;
  several mountain ranges

Turkmenistan
  flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes rising to
  mountains in the south; low mountains along border with Iran;
  borders Caspian Sea in west

Turks and Caicos Islands low, flat limestone; extensive marshes and mangrove swamps

Tuvalu
  very low-lying and narrow coral atolls

Uganda
  mostly plateau with rim of mountains

Ukraine
  most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains (steppes) and
  plateaus, mountains being found only in the west (the Carpathians),
  and in the Crimean Peninsula in the extreme south

United Arab Emirates
  flat, barren coastal plain merging into rolling
  sand dunes of vast desert wasteland; mountains in east

United Kingdom
  mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to
  rolling plains in east and southeast

United States
  vast central plain, mountains in west, hills and low
  mountains in east; rugged mountains and broad river valleys in
  Alaska; rugged, volcanic topography in Hawaii

United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges
  low and nearly level
  sandy coral islands with narrow fringing reefs that have developed
  at the top of submerged volcanic mountains, which in most cases rise
  steeply from the ocean floor

Uruguay
  mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland

Uzbekistan
  mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad,
  flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya,
  Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east
  surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral
  Sea in west

Vanuatu
  mostly mountainous islands of volcanic origin; narrow
  coastal plains

Venezuela
  Andes Mountains and Maracaibo Lowlands in northwest;
  central plains (llanos); Guiana Highlands in southeast

Vietnam
  low, flat delta in south and north; central highlands;
  hilly, mountainous in far north and northwest

Virgin Islands
  mostly hilly to rugged and mountainous with little
  level land

Wake Island
  atoll of three low coral islands, Peale, Wake, and
  Wilkes, built up on an underwater volcano; central lagoon is former
  crater, islands are part of the rim

Wallis and Futuna
  volcanic origin; low hills

West Bank
  mostly rugged dissected upland, some vegetation in west,
  but barren in east

Western Sahara
  mostly low, flat desert with large areas of rocky or
  sandy surfaces rising to small mountains in south and northeast

World
  the greatest ocean depth is the Mariana Trench at 10,924 m in
  the Pacific Ocean

Yemen
  narrow coastal plain backed by flat-topped hills and rugged
  mountains; dissected upland desert plains in center slope into the
  desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula

Zambia
  mostly high plateau with some hills and mountains

Zimbabwe
  mostly high plateau with higher central plateau (high
  veld); mountains in east

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@2127 Total fertility rate (children born/woman)

Afghanistan
  6.58 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Albania
  2.02 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Algeria
  1.82 children born/woman (2008 est.)

American Samoa
  3.35 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Andorra
  1.32 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Angola
  6.2 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Anguilla
  1.75 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Antigua and Barbuda
  2.08 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Argentina
  2.37 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Armenia
  1.35 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Aruba
  1.85 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Australia
  1.78 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Austria
  1.38 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Azerbaijan
  2.05 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Bahamas, The
  2.13 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Bahrain
  2.53 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Bangladesh
  3.08 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Barbados
  1.65 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Belarus
  1.23 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Belgium
  1.65 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Belize
  3.44 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Benin
  5.58 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Bermuda
  1.88 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Bhutan
  2.48 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Bolivia
  2.67 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Bosnia and Herzegovina
  1.24 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Botswana
  2.66 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Brazil
  2.22 children born/woman (2008 est.)

British Virgin Islands
  1.71 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Brunei
  1.94 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Bulgaria
  1.4 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Burkina Faso
  6.34 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Burma
  1.92 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Burundi
  6.4 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Cambodia
  3.08 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Cameroon
  4.41 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Canada
  1.57 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Cape Verde
  3.17 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Cayman Islands
  1.89 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Central African Republic
  4.23 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Chad
  5.43 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Chile
  1.95 children born/woman (2008 est.)

China
  1.77 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Christmas Island
  NA (2008 est.)

Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  NA (2008 est.)

Colombia
  2.49 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Comoros
  4.9 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the 6.28 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Congo, Republic of the
  5.92 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Cook Islands
  3.1 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Costa Rica
  2.17 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Cote d'Ivoire
  4.23 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Croatia
  1.41 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Cuba
  1.6 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Cyprus
  1.79 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Czech Republic
  1.23 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Denmark
  1.74 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Djibouti
  5.14 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Dominica
  2.1 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Dominican Republic
  2.78 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Ecuador
  2.59 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Egypt
  2.72 children born/woman (2008 est.)

El Salvador
  3.04 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Equatorial Guinea
  5.16 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Eritrea
  4.84 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Estonia
  1.42 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Ethiopia
  6.17 children born/woman (2008 est.)

European Union
  1.5 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
  NA (2008 est.)

Faroe Islands
  2.45 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Fiji
  2.68 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Finland
  1.73 children born/woman (2008 est.)

France
  1.98 children born/woman (2008 est.)

French Polynesia
  1.95 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Gabon
  4.68 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Gambia, The
  5.13 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Gaza Strip
  5.19 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Georgia
  1.43 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Germany
  1.41 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Ghana
  3.78 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Gibraltar
  1.65 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Greece
  1.36 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Greenland
  2.22 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Grenada
  2.27 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Guam
  2.55 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Guatemala
  3.59 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Guernsey
  1.4 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Guinea
  5.25 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Guinea-Bissau
  4.72 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Guyana
  2.03 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Haiti
  4.79 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Honduras
  3.38 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Hong Kong
  1 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Hungary
  1.34 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Iceland
  1.91 children born/woman (2008 est.)

India
  2.76 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Indonesia
  2.34 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Iran
  1.71 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Iraq
  3.97 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Ireland
  1.85 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Isle of Man
  1.65 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Israel
  2.77 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Italy
  1.3 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Jamaica
  2.3 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Japan
  1.22 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Jersey
  1.58 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Jordan
  2.47 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Kazakhstan
  1.88 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Kenya
  4.7 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Kiribati
  4.08 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Korea, North
  2 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Korea, South
  1.2 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Kuwait
  2.81 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Kyrgyzstan
  2.67 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Laos
  4.5 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Latvia
  1.29 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Lebanon
  1.87 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Lesotho
  3.13 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Liberia
  5.87 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Libya
  3.15 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Liechtenstein
  1.51 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Lithuania
  1.22 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Luxembourg
  1.78 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Macau
  0.9 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Macedonia
  1.58 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Madagascar
  5.19 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Malawi
  5.67 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Malaysia
  2.98 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Maldives
  1.97 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Mali
  7.34 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Malta
  1.51 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Marshall Islands
  3.68 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Mauritania
  5.69 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Mauritius
  1.83 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Mayotte
  5.6 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Mexico
  2.37 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Micronesia, Federated States of
  2.98 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Moldova
  1.26 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Monaco
  1.75 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Mongolia
  2.24 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Montserrat
  1.22 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Morocco
  2.57 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Mozambique
  5.24 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Namibia
  2.81 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Nauru
  2.94 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Nepal
  3.91 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Netherlands
  1.66 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Netherlands Antilles
  1.98 children born/woman (2008 est.)

New Caledonia
  2.21 children born/woman (2008 est.)

New Zealand
  2.11 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Nicaragua
  2.63 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Niger
  7.29 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Nigeria
  5.01 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Niue
  NA (2008 est.)

Norfolk Island
  NA (2008 est.)

Northern Mariana Islands
  1.18 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Norway
  1.78 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Oman
  5.62 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Pakistan
  3.73 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Palau
  2.45 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Panama
  2.57 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Papua New Guinea
  3.71 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Paraguay
  3.8 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Peru
  2.42 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Philippines
  3.32 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Pitcairn Islands
  NA (2008 est.)

Poland
  1.27 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Portugal
  1.49 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Puerto Rico
  1.76 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Qatar
  2.47 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Romania
  1.38 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Russia
  1.4 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Rwanda
  5.31 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Saint Helena
  1.56 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Saint Kitts and Nevis
  2.28 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Saint Lucia
  1.86 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  1.98 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  1.79 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Samoa
  4.18 children born/woman (2008 est.)

San Marino
  1.35 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Sao Tome and Principe
  5.43 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Saudi Arabia
  3.89 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Senegal
  4.86 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Serbia
  1.69 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Seychelles
  1.73 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Sierra Leone
  5.95 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Singapore
  1.08 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Slovakia
  1.34 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Slovenia
  1.27 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Solomon Islands
  3.65 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Somalia
  6.6 children born/woman (2008 est.)

South Africa
  2.43 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Spain
  1.3 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Sri Lanka
  2.02 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Sudan
  4.58 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Suriname
  2.01 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Svalbard
  NA (2008 est.)

Swaziland
  3.34 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Sweden
  1.67 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Switzerland
  1.44 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Syria
  3.21 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Taiwan
  1.13 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Tajikistan
  3.04 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Tanzania
  4.62 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Thailand
  1.64 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Timor-Leste
  3.36 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Togo
  4.85 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Tokelau
  NA (2008 est.)

Tonga
  2.5 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago
  1.73 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Tunisia
  1.73 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Turkey
  1.87 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Turkmenistan
  3.07 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Turks and Caicos Islands
  2.98 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Tuvalu
  2.94 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Uganda
  6.81 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Ukraine
  1.25 children born/woman (2008 est.)

United Arab Emirates
  2.43 children born/woman (2008 est.)

United Kingdom
  1.66 children born/woman (2008 est.)

United States
  2.1 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Uruguay
  1.94 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Uzbekistan
  2.01 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Vanuatu
  2.57 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Venezuela
  2.52 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Vietnam
  1.86 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Virgin Islands
  1.88 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Wallis and Futuna
  NA (2008 est.)

West Bank
  3.31 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Western Sahara
  NA 5.69 children born/woman (2008 est.)

World
  2.61 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Yemen
  6.41 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Zambia
  5.23 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Zimbabwe
  3.72 children born/woman (2008 est.)

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@2128 Government type

Afghanistan
  Islamic republic

Albania
  emerging democracy

Algeria
  republic

American Samoa
  NA