@cyberspice
You're right - we were only showing "English" without the recognized regional languages (it was in the notes of our data). Just pushed a fix: the Languages section now displays the full note from our source data, including Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Irish, and Cornish with their speaker estimates. (Will be shown in the Language below Quick Facts)

@VisualStuart Mobile is tricky! We tried our best to account for standard screen sizes.
What device are you on so we can debug! And what areas are causing problems? We'll get right on it!

@happy Good catch! That's inherited from the original CIA data, which wasn't always precise on UK administrative geography. City of London and Greater London are very different entities with completely different governance structures. Noted for correction. Thank you!

Quick clarification since this is getting attention: we didn't
recreate 60 years of CIA research in two weeks!

The country data has been available as open-source JSON for years
(github.com/factbook/factbook.json - 1,000+ stars). The last
update was January 22, 2026.

We built the front-end: search, compare tool, rankings, and a modern way to browse it all. The data is public domain we just made it accessible again.

Feedback welcome.

@tpuddle Good catch, thanks! The REST Countries API returns all timezones including overseas territories (Pitcairn Islands is UTC-08:00). Our enrichment script was naively taking the first one instead of the primary/mainland timezone. We're fixing this now.

@happy
Good catch, thanks! The REST Countries API returns all timezones including overseas territories (Pitcairn Islands is UTC-08:00). Our enrichment script was naively taking the first one instead of the primary/mainland timezone. We're fixing this now.

@otte_homan Fixed!

@otte_homan it’s double counting! Whoops! Fixing it now! Thank you

Happy Presidents Day.

Two weeks ago, the CIA shut down the World Factbook - a public
domain reference on every country, used by 6 million people
monthly since 1997.

We built a replacement:
https://openfactbook.org

261 countries · Instant search · Country comparisons

Public data should stay public.

#OpenData #CivicTech #OpenSource #PresidentsDay
#PublicDomain #DataRescue