{"id":512,"date":"2009-06-26T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=512"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:38:14","slug":"world-factbook-redesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2009\/06\/26\/world-factbook-redesign\/","title":{"rendered":"World Factbook-Redesign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Locating hard to find information on countries just got easier with World Factbook\u2019s newly redesigned Web site.<\/p>\n<p>The world-renowned World Factbook Web site provides visitors with wide-ranging and hard-to-locate information about the background, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 countries and other entities. Their new site will provide visitors with a more user-friendly experience and improved navigation. It also includes downloadable and printable photos for nearly 100 countries, a \u201cDid You Know?\u201d section that explains the impact of the Factbook around the world, a \u201cWhat\u2019s New\u201d section that highlights recent significant updates and additions as well as a new feature that provides built-in world rankings for many of the Factbook information fields.  To check out the new site go to: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locating hard to find information on countries just got easier with World Factbook\u2019s newly redesigned Web site. The world-renowned World Factbook Web site provides visitors with wide-ranging and hard-to-locate information about the background, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 countries and other entities. Their new site will provide visitors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}