Reader Countries 

The VRA Reader monitors the following 268 countries and related territories,* providing weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual updates. The VRA Reader is also designed to track first level adminstartive units of these entities (for example, the 32 departments and 1 capital district in Colombia). In addition, VRA can generate customizable updates according to the clients specifications. Transnational regions like the Ferghana Valley are available upon request.

Afghanistan	Djibouti	Korea, South	Reunion
Albania	Dominica	Kuwait	Romania
Algeria	Dominican Republic	Kyrgyzstan	Russia
American Samoa	East Timor	Laos	Rwanda
Andorra	Ecuador	Latvia	Saint Helena
Angola	Egypt	Lebanon	Saint Kitts and Nevis
Anguilla	El Salvador	Lesotho	Saint Lucia
Antarctica	Equatorial Guinea	Liberia	Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Antigua and Barbuda	Eritrea	Libya	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Arctic Ocean	Estonia	Liechtenstein	Samoa
Argentina	Ethiopia	Lithuania	San Marino
Armenia	Europa Island	Luxembourg	Sao Tome and Principe
Aruba	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	Macau	Saudi Arabia
Ashmore and Cartier Islands	Faroe Islands	Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of	Senegal
Atlantic Ocean	Fiji	Madagascar	Seychelles
Australia	Finland	Malawi	Sierra Leone
Austria	France	Malaysia	Singapore
Azerbaijan	French Guiana	Maldives	Slovakia
Bahamas, The	French Polynesia	Mali	Slovenia
Bahrain	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	Malta	Solomon Islands
Baker Island	Gabon	Man, Isle of	Somalia
Bangladesh	Gambia, The	Marshall Islands	South Africa
Barbados	Gaza Strip	Martinique	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Bassas da India	Georgia	Mauritania	Southern Ocean
Belarus	Germany	Mauritius	Spain
Belgium	Ghana	Mayotte	Spratly Islands
Belize	Gibralter	Mexico	Sri Lanka
Benin	Glorioso Islands	Micronesia, Federated States of	Sudan
Bermuda	Greece	Midway Islands	Suriname
Bhutan	Greenland	Moldova	Svalbard
Bolivia	Grenada	Monaco	Swaziland
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Guadeloupe	Mongolia	Sweden
Botswana	Guam	Montserrat	Switzerland
Bouvet Island	Guatemala	Morocco	Syria
Brazil	Guernsey	Mozambique	Taiwan
British Indian Ocean Territory	Guinea	Namibia	Tajikistan
British Virgin Islands	Guinea-Bissau	Nauru	Tanzania
Brunei	Guyana	Navassa Island	Thailand
Bulgaria	Haiti	Nepal	Togo
Burkina Faso	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	Netherlands	Tokelau
Burma	Holy See (Vatican City)	Netherlands Antilles	Tonga
Burundi	Honduras	New Caledonia	Trinidad and Tobago
Cambodia	Hong Kong	New Zealand	Tromelin Island
Cameroon	Howland Island	Nicaragua	Tunisia
Canada	Hungary	Niger	Turkey
Cape Verde	Iceland	Nigeria	Turkmenistan
Cayman Islands	India	Niue	Turks and Caicos Islands
Central African Republic	Indian Ocean	Norfolk Island	Tuvalu
Chad	Indonesia	Northern Mariana Islands	Uganda
Chile	Iran	Norway	Ukraine
China	Iraq	Oman	United Arab Emirates
Christmas Island	Ireland	Pacific Ocean	United Kingdom
Clipperton Island	Israel	Pakistan	United States
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	Italy	Palau	Uruguay
Colombia	Jamaica	Palestine	Uzbekistan
Comoros	Jan Mayen	Palmyra Atoll	Vanuatu
Congo, Democratic Repbulic of the	Japan	Panama	Venezuela
Congo, Republic of	Jarvis Island	Papua New Guinea	Vietnam
Cook Islands	Jersey	Paracel Islands	Virgin Islands
Coral Sea Islands	Johnston Atoll	Paraguay	Wake Island
Costa Rica	Jordan	Peru	Wallis and Futuna Islands
Cote d'Ivoire	Juan de Nova Island	Philippines	West Bank
Croatia	Kazakhstan<	Pitcairn Islands	Western Sahara
Cuba	Kenya	Poland	Yemen
Cyprus	Kingman Reef	Portugal	Yugoslavia (Serbia & Montenegro)/TD>
Czech Republic	Kiribati	Puerto Rico	Zambia
Denmark	Korea, North	Qatar	Zimbabwe

*Note: The 268 entries fall into one of three categories: 197 independent countries (e.g.,Nepal), 7 zones (e.g., Arctic Ocean) or 63 related territories (e.g., Baker Island). Of the 268 entries, 266 are found in the 2001 CIA Factbook (East Timor and Palestine are not included in the 2001 edition of the Factbook). Although the 268 are monitored, only about 2/3 of the entries receive systematic and continuous coverage.