2009/4/22 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2009/4/22 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
Which look in turn like they are from the CIA World Fact Book, or something similar.
Basically we dumped most of the CIA World Factbook into Wikipedia early on. 'Cos it's basically a geographical encyclopedia that's good quality and public domain.
As an aside, you can still find bits of it around:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_Seychelles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Bolivia#Statistics