Thanks for the heads up regarding World Affairs Yearbook of China.
It certainly may be possible that it has what I was asking about in
message 14332, but I googled that name and all it returns is a lot
of press articles similar to your hotlink, all hot and bothered
about Sikkim. There was similar excitement not long ago when China
removed Sikkim as an independent nation-state from its official
website.
I suspect that this Yearbook would not have the "Factbook" and ISO
3166 type non-hierarchical alphabetical listing of "countries", but
who knows? A search of China's official government website reveals
press releases announcing the upcoming publication, but nothing more
up-to-date.
If anyone comes across it, let me know.
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
wrote:
> http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?c=4&t=1&id=7128
>
> also
> the world affairs yearbook of china
> mentioned in the above article
> is evidently what geoh was asking for in message 14332