Arranges countries around the world alphabetically, subdivides these countries into 250 culture groups, and provides information about the ethnology and human geography of each group.

v. 1. Afghanistan to Bosnia Herzegovina -- v. 2. Brazil to Congo, Republic of -- v. 3. Costa Rica to Georgia -- v. 4. Germany to Jamaica -- v. 5. Japan to Mali -- v. 6. Mauritania to Nigeria -- v. 7. Norway to Russia -- v. 8. Rwanda to Syria -- v. 9. Tajikistan to Zimbabwe.