Europa World Yearbook

Format: Subscription Database
Electronic Access: Available through Europa World (subscription database)
Contains a listing of 1,650+ international organizations and surveys of the countries of the world. *Information for each country includes: recent history, economic affairs, government, defense, education, public holidays, statistics on population, health, agriculture, forestry, fishing, tourism, media, etc.
A good resource for an in-depth overview of a country.