======================================================================

Notes and Definitions

Along with regular information updates, The World Factbook features
several new or revised fields. In the Government category, the
"Capital" entry has been greatly expanded and now contains up to four
subfields, including significant new information having to do with
time. The subfields consist of the name of the capital itself, its
geographic coordinates, the time difference at the capital from
coordinated universal time (UTC), and, if applicable, information on
daylight saving time (DST). Where appropriate, a special note has been
added to highlight those countries that have multiple time zones. The
Transnational issues category now has a "Trafficking in persons" entry.
Human trafficking connotes modern-day slavery and this important new
field will include information on the most egregious countries (Tier 2
Watch List and Tier 3) as listed in the US State Department's annual
report.

Abbreviations: This information is included in Appendix A:
Abbreviations, which includes all abbreviations and acronyms used in
the Factbook, with their expansions.

Acronyms: An acronym is an abbreviation coined from the initial letter
of each successive word in a term or phrase. In general, an acronym
made up solely from the first letter of the major words in the expanded
form is rendered in all capital letters (NATO from North Atlantic
Treaty Organization; an exception would be ASEAN for Association of
Southeast Asian Nations). In general, an acronym made up of more than
the first letter of the major words in the expanded form is rendered
with only an initial capital letter (Comsat from Communications
Satellite Corporation; an exception would be NAM from Nonaligned
Movement). Hybrid forms are sometimes used to distinguish between
initially identical terms (WTO: for World Trade Organization and WToO
for World Tourism Organization.)

Administrative divisions: This entry generally gives the numbers,
designatory terms, and first-order administrative divisions as approved
by the US Board on Geographic Names (BGN). Changes that have been
reported but not yet acted on by BGN are noted.

Age structure: This entry provides the distribution of the population
according to age. Information is included by sex and age group (0-14
years, 15-64 years, 65 years and over). The age structure of a
population affects a nation's key socioecon