I used the CIA factbook so much in college in the early 2000's when looking at so many things. When researching countries to support and travel to it made sense to vreview it beforehand. Its insane that this as a resource would be taken down.

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anigbrowl 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It gets cited a lot in immigration litigation as well (eg in asylum arguments) because it's an unimpeachable factual source that the government's lawyers can't reasonably dispute.

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pesus 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Now that you mention it, I'm pretty convinced this is the reason they took it down. If you can't dispute the facts, get rid of them, I guess.

	▲	red-iron-pine 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		that is almost certainly the point

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strangattractor 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It was a great resource for basic facts about countries. Providing it to the public was genius in addition to being useful.

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phyzome 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I was in middle school in the 90s and I had that URL memorized. Used it a lot as a reference for class projects.