# CIA World Factbook (Country Profiles)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/central-intelligence-agency/cia-world-factbook/  
**Provider:** Central Intelligence Agency — https://apis.io/providers/central-intelligence-agency/  
**Documentation:** https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/

CIA World Factbook (Country Profiles) is one of 4 APIs that [Central Intelligence Agency](https://apis.io/providers/central-intelligence-agency/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Country Profiles, Demographics, Geography, Open Data, and Reference. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes a GitHub repository.

The CIA World Factbook is the long-running unclassified almanac of reference information on 260 world entities including all sovereign countries, dependencies, and oceans, organized into the categories of Geography, People and Society, Environment, Government, Economy, Energy, Communications, Transportation, Military and Security, Space, Terrorism, and Transnational Issues. The web product was discontinued 4 February 2026; the community-maintained `factbook.json` GitHub project preserves a CC0 / public-domain JSON dataset of all entities for programmatic access.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Website** — https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
- **OpenData** — https://github.com/factbook/factbook.json
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/factbook/factbook.json

## Other Central Intelligence Agency APIs (3)

- [CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST)](https://apis.io/apis/central-intelligence-agency/cia-foia-reading-room/)
- [CIA Museum Digital Collection](https://apis.io/apis/central-intelligence-agency/cia-museum/)
- [Studies in Intelligence Journal](https://apis.io/apis/central-intelligence-agency/cia-studies-in-intelligence/)

## Tags

Country Profiles, Demographics, Geography, Open Data, Reference, World Factbook

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