The Country Studies are works published by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress (USA), freely availiable for use by researchers. No copyright is claimed on them, therefore, there have been dedicated to the public domain and can be copied freely. Note that not all the pictures used therein are in the public domain.
"Information contained in the Country Studies On-Line is not copyrighted and thus is available for free and unrestricted use by researchers. As a courtesy, however, appropriate credit should be given to the series."
See also:
for information using the Country Studies as a source for new articles for the Wikipedia.
