Schott's Almanac


Schott's Almanac was a best-selling UK reference book, published annually in the United Kingdom between 2006 and 2010. The book was compiled by Ben Schott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
In addition to the UK version, the best known, two other editions of Schott's Almanac were published, in the United States and Germany. Each Almanac had a different content and structure, and the German edition was in German.

The Almanac

The Almanac presented the world in thirteen† sections:
†In the US edition, this number was changed to a total of fifteen sections, with the addition of:
The aforementioned replace the UK edition's "Parliament" section. Other minor differences in the US edition include, but are not limited to, changing the UK's "The World" to "World & Gazetteer", "Music & Cinema" to "Music & Movies", "Establishment and Faith" to "Form & Faith", as well as rearranging the order of the chapters.