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			<abstract>World Countries (Generalized) represents generalized boundaries for the countries of the world, as they existed in 2002.</abstract>
			<purpose>World Countries (Generalized) provides generalized political boundaries for the world in 2002. The generalized political boundaries improve draw performance and effectiveness at a global level. To display World Political Organization Membership attributes or CountryWatch Demographics attributes, join these tables to this attribute table using Fips_cntry or Cntry_name as the common field.</purpose>
			<supplinf>Largest scale when displaying the data: 1:50,000,000.</supplinf>
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				<title>World Countries (Generalized)</title>
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				<edition>2002</edition>
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				<themekey>international boundaries</themekey>
				<themekey>coastlines</themekey>
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				<themekey>international codes</themekey>
				<themekey>currencies</themekey>
				<themekey>sovereignties</themekey>
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				<themekey>landlocked information</themekey>
				<themekey>boundaries</themekey>
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				<tempkey>2001</tempkey>
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						<codesets>Global Mapping International</codesets>
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				<attrdef>The country code (two-letter) for the country from the International Organization for Standardization.</attrdef>
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				<attrdef>The country code (three-letter) for the country from the International Organization for Standardization.</attrdef>
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				<attrdef>The abbreviation (three-letter) for the currency of the country.</attrdef>
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				<procdesc>The following steps were performed by ESRI for Data &amp; Maps 2002: Updated Saudi Arabia - Yemen border. Updated attributes for East Timor, Yugoslavia, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.  Generalized to a tolerance of 0.1 decimal degrees.  Recalculated attributes based on area.  Created ArcGIS™ layer file (.lyr) and ArcView legend file (.avl).  Copied projection file (.prj) and created spatial indices.

The following steps were performed by ESRI: Extracted the features from ESRI Data &amp; Maps 1999 data set–cntry98.shp.  Updated political boundaries and attributes for 2000 for Macau, Hong Kong, and East Timor. Extended political boundaries into the Caspian Sea and removed the shoreline. Generalized to a tolerance of 0.1 decimal degrees.  Removed many tiny islands while maintaining the number of countries. Created ArcGIS™ layer file (.lyr).  Created ArcView legend file (.avl).  Created projection file (.prj).  Created spatial indices.</procdesc>
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						<origin>United States Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research</origin>
						<pubdate>Winter 1993/1994</pubdate>
						<title>Geographic and Global Issues Quarterly</title>
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							<sername>Geographic and Global Issues Quarterly</sername>
							<issue>Volume 3, Number 4</issue>
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							<publish>United States Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research</publish>
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						<title>The World Factbook 2000</title>
						<origin>United States Central Intelligence Agency</origin>
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						<edition>2000</edition>
						<serinfo>
							<sername>The World Factbook</sername>
							<issue>2000</issue>
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						<pubinfo>
							<pubplace>Washington, DC, USA</pubplace>
							<publish>United States Central Intelligence Agency</publish>
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				<typesrc>online</typesrc>
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			<srcinfo>
				<typesrc>paper</typesrc>
				<srccitea>NCGIA</srccitea>
				<srccite>
					<citeinfo>
						<origin>National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis</origin>
						<pubdate>199504</pubdate>
						<title>World Demography Project</title>
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							<pubplace>Santa Barbara, California, USA</pubplace>
							<publish>National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at University of California, Santa Barbara</publish>
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							<caldate>1994</caldate>
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				<srccontr>Attribute data</srccontr>
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					<citeinfo>
						<title>COUNTRIES, DEPENDENCIES, AREAS OF SPECIAL SOVEREIGNTY, AND THEIR PRINCIPAL ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS</title>
						<origin>Executive Secretary for Foreign Names - US Board on Geographic Names</origin>
						<pubdate>20000225</pubdate>
						<edition>4</edition>
						<geoform>tabular digital data</geoform>
						<serinfo>
							<sername>FIPS 10-4</sername>
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						<pubinfo>
							<pubplace>Bethesda, Maryland, USA</pubplace>
							<publish>National Imagery and Mapping Agency</publish>
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				<srccitea>ESFN FIPS 10-4 20000225</srccitea>
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					<citeinfo>
						<title>COUNTRIES, DEPENDENCIES, AREAS OF SPECIAL SOVEREIGNTY, AND THEIR PRINCIPAL ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS</title>
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