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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- FAQs |
 | | Vatican City, created in 1929 to administer properties belonging to the Holy See in Rome, is recognized under international law as a sovereign state, but it does not send or receive diplomatic representatives. |
 | | In the future, such a category may be adopted listing the extremes, but also adding a normal temperature range found throughout most of a country’s territory. |
 | | Our expanded Cross-Reference List of Geographic Names, however, includes many of the world’s major geographic features as well as historic (former) names of countries and cities mentioned in The World Factbook. |
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