As per a suggestion made on my earlier contribution
Countries and territories of the worldI've produced a second version of the data that has all the same links, but now links to books via Amazon.co.uk rather than Amazon.com, since that's certainly a more covenient link if you are in the UK! I've also changed the Google searches to use the co.uk domain search engine - I doubt it makes much difference to the results, but if you have applied personalization to your Google News results you may well prefer to be using that version.
The other details from the first announcement are repeated below, so all the info is here rather than requiring you to flick over to the other post:
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I've put together this file that has all the countries (and a few dependent territories) throughout the world.
For each country, it shows the flag of the country, and provides links to
* Books about the country (via Amazon.co.uk)
* facts from the CIA World Factbook
* Google search for the country, plus images and news (via the co.uk site)
* Lonely Planet info about the country
* the country's entry in the Wikipedia
You can also access the kml file from
http://www.zmarties.com/earth/about/countries.htmThat page will also take you to a web page based version of the same information, with additional links to maps in Virtual Earth, Google Maps, MultiMap, and Yahoo! maps.